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Yeah I absolutely love the WACA. It used to be almost always full for the big bash and for international games, so a great atmosphere was guaranteed.
I also love the grass banks. It’s the last test venue in australia to have decent sized ones and they give the ground a lovely relaxed, intimate feel. The floodlights are iconic and it’s the perfect size for smaller tests.
Imo international white ball cricket, the big bash and the Ashes/BG trophy should be played at Optus because those games do draw big crowds of 20-60k, but test matches against the ‘smaller nations’ and domestic cricket should be kept at the WACA because it’s such a great ground as well as a better size for it.
T20 hasn’t killed Test cricket – it’s proven why Tests are the pinnacle of the sport
And we gave up the WACA, a bloody brilliant ground with the best pitch in the world for the new stadium but we can’t get a big game at Optus anyway.
T20 hasn’t killed Test cricket – it’s proven why Tests are the pinnacle of the sport
completely agree. I feel a bit cheated to be honest, we built a huge new stadium and moved all international cricket there under the promise that we were guaranteed a test match each year. The WACA is one of my favorite grounds in the country – it has one of the best pitches in the world, the iconic floodlights, lovely grass banks for the picnic atmosphere, a fortress for Australia and a central location, and we gave all that up for what is a great stadium, but we never seem to get matches at it anyway.
T20 hasn’t killed Test cricket – it’s proven why Tests are the pinnacle of the sport
It’s kinda trashy that Perth isn’t guaranteed a test nowadays. We’re the 4th biggest city, have perhaps the best venue in the country in Perth Stadium (from a modern/facilities point of view), we pull a big crowd for Big Bash games and also we’re the only major city on the west coast. The Gabba is a dump and Adelaide’s quite a lot smaller than we are, but I guess the Oval has a lot of heritage there.
T20 hasn’t killed Test cricket – it’s proven why Tests are the pinnacle of the sport
Here’s some climate change facts for you to read under that rock of yours, proven by scientists who have dedicated years researching the topic: https://www.google.com/amp/s/climate.nasa.gov/evidence.amp
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/what-evidence-exists-earth-warming-and-humans-are-main-cause
One of the sources is from Nasa, the others from the NAOO. Both of which are just lefty sites trying to push wealth distribution I guess eh?
Cricket must start preparing for climate change
Sea level in the western Pacific Ocean has been increasing at a rate 2–3 times the global average, resulting in almost 0.3 meters of net rise since 1990. But sure, that’s not a change is it?
Cricket must start preparing for climate change
What a load of BS this is. The freaking UN have said that roughly 150,000 people die every year as a result of climate changes. Want to try telling their families that climate change doesn’t have any real impacts and that they should be more concerned about who Dave Warner’s opening partner is? Want to try telling people in the Solomon Islands that no impacts of climate change are coming to fruition as their homes are submerged? I wouldn’t think so.
The climate does fluctuate naturally, but the rate of change is being hugely sped up by humans and the release of greenhouse gases. Climate change isn’t ‘entirely political’, it’s real.
Cricket must start preparing for climate change
The thing is that climate change is already affecting cricket, so it’s a bit of a different scenario. There’s not a gigantic amount cricket can do, but boards still need to have more conversations and start thinking about it imo as well as trialing a few things.
Cricket must start preparing for climate change
I completely agree with your sentiment here. I don’t think cricket should be at the olympics anyway, and particularly if it’s going to be in the firm of t10, which it’s probably have to be. Having watched a little of this year’s Abu Dhabi T10, there’s absolutely no way I’d want to see that played ever in the olympics or in any international game of cricket. To get a team all out you’d have to take a wicket every ten balls, so there’s just no element of risk or any value on your wicket as a batsman and most of the skill involved in batting just goes.
Why cricket doesn’t deserve to be an Olympic sport
I agree that the location of the WACA is amazing, it’s right in the heart of the city, but I have to disagree with you about the BBL experience at the WACA. The WACA was a furnace for the scorchers, and it would sell out at 22.5k or whatever the capacity was then almost every game, but you can get over double that at Optus. I remember going to the first BBL game there with almost 50k at the ground and it was insane. You never get crowds like that outside of Melbourne or sometimes Adelaide. The average attendance there is about 30k and that’s way more than the WACA can even hold, which equates for a crazy atmosphere.
The BBL pulls a big crowd and so imo it should be played at our biggest and most modern stadium, even if it doesn’t have the charm that the WACA does.
T20 hasn’t killed Test cricket – it’s proven why Tests are the pinnacle of the sport