"The main story leading up to the Second Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground was the health of the England vice-captain Denis Compton.His famously damaged knee had swollen up after making another century – 115 vs an Australian XI – and hourly bulletins were posted by the MCC manager Brigadier Michael Green expressing optimistically that he would play in order to help draw a large crowd for the Test, though doubts where express by those who had seen him.