The Melbourne Cricket Club has been given the news it has long wanted to hear.

The International Cricket Council has rated the drop-in MCG pitch used in last month's Boxing Day Test between Australia and New Zealand as "very good", the best possible adjudication on the ICC's pitch and outfield assessment scale.

The MCG pitch produced great results for Australia and the venue itself. Credit:AAP

The development has left MCG officials ecstatic after a trying couple of years in which the venue's wickets repeatedly made headlines for the wrong reasons.

It is especially gratifying for head curator Matt Page after an unsafe pitch caused a Sheffield Shield match between Victoria and Western Australia at the venue to be abandoned less than three weeks out from the start of the Test.