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The future of the WACA and Perth's Test cricket challenge

WACA chief executive Christina Matthews discusses the old and the new, plus her desire to continue in the role

15-Mar-2023•Tristan Lavalette

Perth's long wait is over after international cricket's Covid lockout

The Australia-England T20 marks a welcome return for the game after more than two years

08-Oct-2022•Tristan Lavalette

Designs for the new-look WACA revealed

The venue will have a capacity of 10,000 and include a range of public facilities plus a new indoor cricket centre

25-Mar-2021•ESPNcricinfo staff

WACA to become boutique base after funding confirmed

The ground will serve as a training base for WA's state, WBBL and BBL teams, plus a venue for state league football

03-Aug-2020•Daniel Brettig

WACA makes strides towards redevelopment into boutique venue

The Federal Government has committed AUD$30 million to the project which will see capacity cut at the venue

15-Dec-2019•Andrew McGlashan

Perth Ashes tickets to go belatedly on sale

Tickets for the Perth Ashes Test will belatedly go on sale at the end of July after unsuccessful efforts to have the match staged at the city's new multi-purpose stadium rather than the unpopular WACA Ground

16-Jun-2017•Daniel Brettig

Perth Stadium scratched from Ashes

The Western Australia government confirmed the stadium would not be completed in time for the third Ashes Test between Australia and England in mid-December

10-May-2017•Daniel Brettig

WACA curator's uphill battle for pace, bounce

A colder spring and an earlier start to the Perth Test season has provided challenges to Matt Page and his crew

02-Nov-2016•Daniel Brettig in Perth

WACA set to open Australian Test summer

Perth is in the frame to hold the opening Test of summer for the first time in more than 20 years as Cricket Australia moves towards dual day/night Tests for 2016-17

06-Apr-2016•Daniel Brettig

Sadness and hope as WACA's demise imminent

As Australia's cricketers lament the imminent demise of the WACA Ground as a major international venue, a paltry crowd for the second Test against New Zealand is expected to underline why this is so

12-Nov-2015•Daniel Brettig at the WACA

WACA to lose major international games

The WACA Ground will no longer host international matches featuring England, India or South Africa from 2018-19, with all major internationals set to move to the new Perth Stadium

03-Sep-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

Special committee to review WACA future

The future of the WACA in Perth will be reviewed by a special committee under the leadership of businessman Michael Smith

15-Jul-2014•ESPNcricinfo staff

WACA faces uncertain future

The WACA faces an uncertain future as an international venue after a major redevelopment plan was abandoned on Monday

17-Dec-2013•Brydon Coverdale

WACA stripped of Test in 2014-15

Perth is the major casualty of Australia's truncated 2014-15 Test summer, stripped of its annual match for the first time since 1976-77

11-Sep-2013•Daniel Brettig

Bouncy pitch awaits India at WACA

The WACA curator feels the pitch is getting back to its fast and bouncy ways and expects this track to behave similarly to the one in the Ashes last season

09-Jan-2012•Sidharth Monga at the WACA

WACA groundsman hopes to revive past aura

Few venues in world cricket are as evocative as the WACA. From the days of Dennis Lillee thudding the ball into Rod Marsh's upturned gloves, to the sight of Curtly Ambrose claiming seven wickets for one run in a legendary spell in 1992-93, it is a ground

14-Dec-2010•Andrew Miller at the WACA

Pacy Perth has tongues wagging

So quick are the prospects in Perth that Australia are likely to go in without a specialist spinner for the first time in 16 years

14-Jan-2008•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan in Perth

WACA to boost capacity to 30,000

Perth's WACA Ground is set to increase its capacity to 30,000 in a major development project that should be completed within four years

13-Apr-2007•Cricinfo staff

Warne's least-favourite Australian venue

Cricinfo lists some of the significant stats from Perth

13-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

A guide to the WACA

Perth's WACA ground established its reputation as a fast bowler's delight but in recent seasons spinners have been having more success. Here, Cricinfo looks at the venue for the third Test

13-Dec-2006•Peter English

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