The WACA (formally the WACA Ground) is a sports
stadium
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in
Perth
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, Western Australia. The stadium's name derives from the initials of its owners and operators, the
Western Australian Cricket Association
The Western Australian Cricket Association (known as the WACA) is the governing body for cricket in Western Australia.
The WACA was formed on 5 November 1885. In 1893 the association opened the WACA Ground.
Elite cricket
The WACA is responsible ...
.
The WACA has been referred to as Western Australia's "home of
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
" since the early 1890s, with
Test cricket
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played at the ground since the 1970–71 season. The ground is the home venue of Western Australia's
first-class cricket
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team, the
Western Warriors
The Western Australian Men’s cricket team, formerly nicknamed the Western Warriors, represent the Australian state of Western Australia in Australian domestic cricket. The team is selected and supported by the Western Australian Cricket Asso ...
, and the state's
Women's National Cricket League
The Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) is the national domestic 50-over competition for women's cricket in Australia. Featuring seven teams—one from every state, plus the Australian Capital Territory—each season's winner is awarded the ...
side, the
Western Fury
The Western Australia Women cricket team, previously known as Western Fury, is the women's representative cricket team for the Australian State of Western Australia. They play their home games at WACA West Ground, Perth. They compete in the Wome ...
. The
Perth Scorchers
The Perth Scorchers is an Australian domestic Twenty20 franchise cricket team representing the Western Australian city of Perth in the Big Bash League (BBL).
The Scorchers are the current BBL Champions, having defeated the Sydney Sixers in the ...
, a
Big Bash League
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franchise, played home matches at the ground until 2019. The Scorchers and
Australian national team have shifted most matches to the nearby 60,000-seat
Perth Stadium
Perth Stadium, currently known as Optus Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in A ...
.
The
pitch at the WACA is regarded as one of the quickest and bounciest in the world. These characteristics, in combination with the afternoon sea-breezes which regularly pass the ground (the
Fremantle Doctor
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), have historically made the ground an attractive place for
pace
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and
swing bowler
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s. The outfield is exceptionally fast, contributing to the ground seeing some very fast scoring – as of February 2016, four of the nine fastest Test centuries have been scored at the WACA.
The WACA has also hosted 7 scores of 99 in Test cricket – the most of any ground in the world.
Throughout its history, the ground has also been used for a range of other sports, including
athletics
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carnivals,
Australian rules football
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,
baseball
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,
soccer
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,
rugby league
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,
rugby union
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, and
international rules football
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. However, recent years have seen most of these activities relocated to other venues. It has also been used for major
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s.
Early history
![Association cricket ground, Perth](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Association_cricket_ground%2C_Perth._c.1910.jpg)
William Henry Wise, a gardener who came to WA from
England
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in 1880, laid the first turf wicket at the WACA. Wise was personal gardener to Sir
George Shenton
Sir George Shenton (4 March 1842 – 29 June 1909) was a prominent businessman in colonial Western Australia, the first Mayor of Perth, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for over thirty years.
Early and family life
Ge ...
, of Crawley. In addition to his work at the WACA Ground, he laid the first tennis court on the Perth Esplanade.
The Western Australian Cricket Association was officially established on 25 November 1885 under the Presidency of
JCH James. In 1893, the WACA ground was officially opened, occupying a site of old swamp land to the east of the city. The association has a
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A former colony, the Republic of Mauritius (''The Raphael Fishing Com ...
over the land (which expires in 2888). The long term of the lease means that, effectively, the association has
freehold
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title (save that it cannot divest itself of any part of the land without the state government's consent). Originally, the title covered 29 acres (117,000 m²), and took in what is now
Gloucester Park. However, the latter part of the land was divested to the Trotting Association in the early 1920s. Between 1977 and 1979, (then-rebel)
World Series Cricket
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matches were played at Gloucester Park because the
Kerry Packer
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-led organisation was not granted access to the WACA.
The first match played on the turf wickets took place in February 1894. However, difficulties encountered in transporting teams to Western Australia meant that the ground was not part of Australia's main cricket community for many years. Even with the building of a transcontinental railway, the trip from the eastern states still took several days. It took the introduction of scheduled flights to Western Australia to make the WACA readily accessible to interstate or overseas teams.
James Gardiner, president of the WACA for three terms between 1897 and 1924, proposed the adoption of 'electorate' cricket (as it was first known) whereby teams were established on a district basis for competition. He also inaugurated Country Week cricket, during which country teams compete against each other. In 1907, the WACA ground was under threat of being controlled by the
Perth City Council
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to recover debts. Gardiner led the bid to save the ground and secured a government loan.
Further financial difficulties led Gardiner to again raise funds and donations with a cricket match by the Australian XI team in 1912.
Ground developments
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The WACA ground, like many stadiums of its era, has undergone various re-developments. The most notable are:
* The building, in 1895, of the first grandstand; seating 500 people and incorporating dressing rooms, a dining room, bathrooms, members' rooms and bars.
* In 1931 the Farley Stand was opened, named after W.J. Farley, the association's president from 1915–1916 to 1916–17 and secretary from 1917–1918 to 1928–1929.
* In 1948 the scoreboard at the WACA was destroyed by a storm. In 1954 a replacement scoreboard was built, a donation from the North West Murchison Cricket Association. This, now iconic, scoreboard remains in operation.
* In the 1960s the Players Pavilion was built to provide facilities for the players and the WACA administration. Additional seating was later added, initially to accommodate the first
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...
to be played at the WACA (Australia v England in 1970).
* Also to welcome Test cricket to the WACA, 1970 saw the opening of the "Test Stand". It was later renamed the Inverarity Stand, after Western Australian, South Australian and Australian player
John Inverarity
Robert John Inverarity (born 31 January 1944) is a former Australian cricketer who played six Test matches. A right-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spin bowler in his playing career, Inverarity was also one of the enduring captains in th ...
.
* From 1984 to 1988 the WACA underwent major renovations, including a realignment and a complete resurfacing of the ground and the construction of new terracing and seating in the outer. Also built were the three tiered Prindiville Stand, name after the then WACA president Bernie Prindiville in 1985 and two tiered Lillee-Marsh Stand named after the former WA Australian cricketers
Dennis Lillee
Dennis Keith Lillee, (born 18 July 1949) is Australian retired cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation". and
Rod Marsh
Rodney William Marsh (4 November 1947 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian professional cricketer who played as a wicketkeeper for the Australian national team.
Marsh had a Test career spanning from the 1970–71 to the 1983–84 Australian ...
in 1988, which increased the ground's
seating capacity
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. Six large light towers were also installed in 1986 at a cost of $4.2 million, allowing for night time sports such as day-night cricket matches to be played at the ground. An icon of the WACA, the
floodlights
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are 70 metres high and cost $600 per hour to run.
![WACA north](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/WACA_north.JPG)
These redevelopments also made the venue an attractive venue for sports other than cricket, and it was during the late 1980s and early 1990s that the ground saw its greatest use as a multi-sports venue. From 1987 to 2000, the ground was used by the
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football ...
, and from 1995 by the
Fremantle Dockers
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, both Western Australian-based
AFL
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** American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football Leagu ...
teams. 72 AFL matches were held at the ground during this time. From 1995 to 1997 the WACA also served as the home ground for the
Western Reds
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rugby league
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team. In the late 1990s the ground played host to the
Perth Heat
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Australian Baseball League (1989–19 ...
in the former
Australian Baseball League (1989-1999)
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.
However, for various reasons these sports moved away from the WACA (in the case of night football, to
Subiaco Oval
Subiaco Oval (; nicknamed Subi) was a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia, located in the suburb of Subiaco. It was opened in 1908 and closed in 2017 after the completion of the new Perth Stadium in Burswood.
Subiaco Oval was the high ...
), and as a consequence the WACA was again redeveloped in 2002. The capacity of the ground was reduced to around 20,000 with the demolition of the Farley Stand and the old Players Pavilion with the stands being replaced by podiums for temporary stands and the dimensions of the playing arena were also decreased by a total of 31 metres at the eastern and western boundaries, meaning Australian rules football could no longer be played at the ground. From time to time, temporary stands are used to boost the ground's capacity to 24,500.
In 2013, a new video screen was installed at the WACA near the old scoreboard, replacing one of the old temporary screens.
Rejected proposals
In April 2007 the
Western Australian Cricket Association
The Western Australian Cricket Association (known as the WACA) is the governing body for cricket in Western Australia.
The WACA was formed on 5 November 1885. In 1893 the association opened the WACA Ground.
Elite cricket
The WACA is responsible ...
announced a
$250m redevelopment of the stadium.
Seating capacity
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was to be increased, with residential and commercial buildings built in the surrounding areas. The project was to be done in partnership with Ascot Capital Limited with a three- to four-year time frame. WACA members gave final approval for the project in July 2010 and construction was expected to commence in March 2011. However, by November 2011 work on the redevelopment had still yet to commence, and it was reported that delays could continue for years. Although the project received finance, tax office and members' approval, adverse market conditions were believed to have made the project unfeasible.
[John Townsend]
WACA redevelopment in jeopardy
''The West Australian
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'' 15 November 2011. The redevelopment was also the subject of a dispute between the WACA and the Australian Cricketers Association, with the players' union seeking 26 per cent of the value of the project.
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In November 2012 the WACA and Ascot Capital Limited commenced selling 137 apartments in "The Gardens", a planned 10-story residential complex to be located on the western boundary line of the ground. Construction of The Gardens was expected to commence mid-2013 and be completed by mid-2015. The agreement between the WACA and Ascot Capital would have seen new northern grandstands, an increase in ground capacity and a long term revenue stream. However, in December 2013 the WACA released a statement that it had abandoned the so-called Gardens Development because it was unable to achieve the pre-sales target in order to finance the project.
In September 2013
Cricket Australia
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announced that the WACA ground would not host a Test match in the shortened 2014/15 season to accommodate the
2015 Cricket World Cup
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, a decision which left Perth without a summer test match for the first time in nearly 40 years. Cricket Australia said the WACA Ground required significant improvements, given it has the smallest capacity of the five mainland capital city venues.
2019-2023 redevelopments
In 2019, the Western Australian Government provided a $100,000 grant to the Western Australian Cricket Association to construct two new change rooms under the Lillie Marsh Stand to support women's cricket in the state. Construction of the change rooms was completed in time for the
2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
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.
By the 2018/19 summer, the WACA Ground was no longer the primary international cricket venue in Perth, having been replaced by
Perth Stadium
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in
Burswood for most limited overs internationals, Test matches and domestic
Big Bash League
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(BBL) matches for
Perth Scorchers
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. Several years before construction of Perth Stadium concluded, the WACA proposed developing the ground into a 15,000-capacity boutique stadium with improved facilities. In March 2019 the WACA unveiled plans to improve cricket training facilities and enable the ground to host large-scale community events. The plans also included a proposal to reshape the ground to once again be capable of hosting
Australian rules football
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matches, notably marquee
WAFL matches. The total cost would be $75 million, of which $60 million would need to be either privately financed or granted by state and federal governments.
In December 2019 the WACA confirmed a $30 million grant had been granted from the Federal Government. This was later matched with an identical grant from the
Western Australian Government
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.
Redevelopment works began in August 2021.
[ The Inverarity and Prindiville stands will be demolished and be replaced by a community sports hub facility, and the grass hills at either end will be partially excavated to allow ]Australian rules football
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matches to again be played at the ground. The East Fremantle Football Club
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of the West Australian Football League
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(WAFL) will move their home matches to the WACA for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, whilst East Fremantle Oval
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undergoes a redevelopment. The redevelopment of the WACA is due to be completed in December 2023.[ Also as part of the redevelopment, five of the light towers were upgraded with the replacement of the older lights with LED sports lighting as well as the ability to be lit up in various colours in a similar way to Perth Stadium's exterior and were first switched on in December 2022.
The WACA Museum is located on-site and features exhibits about Western Australian cricket.
]
Notable events at the WACA
;1899
* The first first-class match was played on the ground between Western Australia
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and South Australia
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between 3 and 6 April 1899. South Australia
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was victorious, winning by 4 wickets.
;1930s
* In 1932, Donald Bradman
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played at the ground for the first time and attracted a crowd in excess of 20,000 in 1932.
* On 24 and 26 November 1934, the world's first international women's cricket match was played at the WACA Ground between Western Australia
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and a touring England team. The visitors batted first and declared at 3/201, with Molly Hide
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scoring an even 100. Western Australia
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was then dismissed for 82, and, after following on, was 3/59 when stumps were drawn early to enable the visitors to be driven to Fremantle and embark on the SS ''Balranald'' for Adelaide
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.
;1950s
*In March 1958, the first women's cricket Test match to be held in Perth was played at the WACA Ground, and ended in a draw
Scorecard
. The match was also the WACA Ground's first Test match.
;1960s
* In October 1967, Western Australia's Ian Brayshaw
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collected 10 for 44 against Victoria in Victoria's first innings
Scorecard
, the second best bowling figures in an innings in Sheffield Shield
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history.
;1970s
* During the first men's Test match at the WACA, Australia's
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Greg Chappell
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scored 108 on Test debut versus England
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, batting at 7, on 13 December 1970. Brian Luckhurst
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, Ian Redpath
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and John Edrich
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also scored centuries in the draw
Scorecard
.
* On 24 February 1973, The Rolling Stones
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performed at the WACA during their 1973 Pacific Tour.
* Doug Walters
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In 2011, he was inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame by the CA.
...
hit a century in a session against England in 1974, where he hit Bob Willis
Robert George Dylan Willis (born Robert George Willis; 30 May 1949 – 4 December 2019) was an English cricketer, who represented England between 1971 and 1984. A right-handed fast bowler, Willis is regarded by many as one of the greatest fa ...
for six from the last ball of the day
Scorecard
.
* In December 1975 West Indian Roy Fredericks
Roy Clifton Fredericks (11 November 1942 – 5 September 2000) was a West Indian cricketer who played Test cricket from 1968 to 1977.
He was an opening batsman for the West Indies in both Test cricket and one day cricket, and made 4334 Test run ...
scored a century in just 71 balls against Australia, which was at the time the second fastest century (in terms of balls faced) in Test history. Fredericks went on to score 169, which is the record for the highest score at the WACA by an overseas player
Scorecard
.
* In the semi final of the 1976/77 Gillette Cup domestic one day competition, which became known as the "Miracle Match", Western Australia was bowled out by Queensland for 77, before dismissing Queensland for 62 to win the match
Scorecard
.
* Australian batsman Tony Mann scored 108 against India
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as nightwatchman in 1977/1978. This is one of only five centuries by a nightwatchman in Test match cricket
Scorecard
.
*In 1977–1978, the Domestic One-Day Final was played at the WACA for the first time, with Western Australia defeating Tasmania.
*On the last day of a Test match in March 1979, Pakistani tailender Sikander Bakht
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was '' Mankaded'' by Australia's Alan Hurst to end Pakistan's innings. Later in the day, Australian Andrew Hilditch
Andrew Mark Jefferson Hilditch (born 20 May 1956) is a former Australian international cricketer who played in 18 Test matches and eight One Day Internationals from 1979 to 1985. He played for New South Wales from 1977 to 1981 and for South A ...
was dismissed handled the ball
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after he interrupted a throw from mid-on and passed the ball to the bowler Sarfraz Nawaz
Sarfraz Nawaz Malik ( Punjabi, ur, ) (born 1 December 1948) is a former Pakistani Test cricketer and politician, who was instrumental in Pakistan's first Test series victories over India and England. Between 1969 and 1984, he played 55 Tests a ...
, who appealed. Both dismissals were considered to have been against the spirit of cricket, and Nawaz' appeal was considered to have been retribution for Bakht's Mankading.
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* England's only men's Test win at the ground came during the World Series Cricket
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split in 1978/1979, when David Gower
David Ivon Gower (born 1 April 1957) is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer who was captain of the England cricket team during the 1980s. Described as one of the most stylish left-handed batsmen of his era, Gower played 117 Te ...
scored 102. Rodney Hogg
Rodney Malcolm Hogg (born 5 March 1951) is a former Victorian, South Australian and Australian cricketer. He was a fast bowler. Hogg played in 38 Test matches and 71 One Day Internationals between 1978 and 1985. In Tests he took 123 wickets ...
took ten wickets for Australia
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* In December 1979, on the second day of the Test match between Australia and England, Dennis Lillee
Dennis Keith Lillee, (born 18 July 1949) is Australian retired cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation". came out to bat with a cricket bat made from aluminium
Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. I ...
, known as a ComBat
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, rather than the traditional willow
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. After four deliveries and three runs, England captain Mike Brearley
John Michael Brearley (born 28 April 1942) is a retired English first-class cricketer who captained Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England.
He captained the international side in 31 of his 39 Test matches, winning 18 and losing only 4. ...
complained it was damaging the ball. Play was held up for ten minutes as the umpires persuaded Lillee to change to a wooden bat
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. In the same match, Ian Botham
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Hailed as one ...
took 11 for 176 (6 for 78 and 5 for 98), which were his best figures against Australia
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;1980s
* On 9 December 1980, a one-day international match was played at the ground for the first time, between India and New Zealand
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, which India won by 5 runs
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* In a 1981 incident described by ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
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'' as "one of the most undignified incidents in Test history", Dennis Lillee and Pakistani batsman Javed Miandad
Mohammad Javed Miandad PP SI (Urdu: ; born 12 June 1957), popularly known as Javed Miandad (Urdu: ), is a Pakistani cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer known for his unconventional style of captaincy and batting. ESPNcricinfo desc ...
clashed after the two collided with each other on the pitch. After colliding, Lillee turned and kicked Miandad from behind; Miandad lifted his bat above his head as if to strike Lillee and Lillee backed off. The umpire Tony Crafter
Anthony Ronald (Tony) Crafter, (born 5 December 1940 in Mount Barker, South Australia), is a retired Australian Test cricket match umpire.
He umpired 33 Test matches between 1979 and 1992, the highest number by an Australian umpire to that tim ...
stepped in to separate the two. Lillee was fined and suspended for two matches –
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* Terry Alderman
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He began his first-class cricket career in 1974 with Western Australia i ...
suffered a serious shoulder injury in 1982/1983 while tackling an English ground invader in the Test match against England. Greg Chappell
Gregory Stephen Chappell (born 7 August 1948) is a former cricketer who represented Australia at international level in both Tests and One-Day Internationals (ODI). The second of three brothers to play Test cricket, Chappell was the pre-eminen ...
led his team off the ground for 14 minutes and 26 arrests were made
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* On 5 February 1984 the record one day cricket match crowd at WACA Ground of 27,057 was recorded, for the game contested by Australia and the West Indies
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* In December 1984, the WACA hosted its second women's Test match, between Australia and England. Local Test debutante Denise Emerson
Denise Emerson (; born 13 May 1960) is an Australian former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter. She appeared in seven Test matches and 21 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1982 and 1987, including playing at the 1982 World ...
(sister of Terry Alderman
Terence Michael Alderman (born 12 June 1956) is a former Australia cricket team, Australian international cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm fast-medium bowler.
He began his first-class cricket career in 1974 with Western Australia i ...
) top scored for Australia with 84 in the team's first innings, but Jan Brittin
Janette Ann Brittin (4 July 1959 – 11 September 2017) was an English cricketer who played as a right-handed Batting (cricket), batter and right-arm Off spin, off break Bowler (cricket), bowler. She appeared in 27 Women's Test cricket, Tests ...
achieved the overall top score with 112 in England's second innings
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. The match was drawn.
* In 1986 Western Australia played Victoria in a McDonald's Cup fixture as the ground's first cricket match under lights.
* The Benson & Hedges Perth Challenge, a one-off One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
tournament, was held in late December 1986 and early January 1987 to help celebrate Australia's defence of the America's Cup
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yachting competition. Australia
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, England
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, Pakistan
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and the West Indies
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were the competitors, with England winning the tournament
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* Merv Hughes
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took a hat-trick
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in the Test against the West Indies in 1988/1989, and went on to take 8–87 in the innings. He ended up with 13–217 for the match, the most wickets taken at the ground in a Test match. In the same Test, Australian tail-end batsman Geoff Lawson had his jaw broken by a Curtly Ambrose
Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose KCN (born 21 September 1963) is an Antiguan former cricketer who played 98 Test matches for the West Indies. Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, he took 405 Test wickets at a ...
bouncer
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* New Zealander Mark Greatbatch
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scored 146 not out off 485 balls against Australia in November 1989. The match was drawn. Greatbatch was at the crease for almost 11 hours over two days, and saved New Zealand from defeat
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* Geoff Marsh
Geoffrey Robert Marsh (born 31 December 1958) is a former Australian cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test matches and 117 One Day Internationals for Australia as an opening batsman. As the coach of Australia he was in charge whe ...
scored 355* for Western Australia v South Australia in December 1989
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This is the highest ever individual score at the ground by a Western Australian and the seventh highest score in Sheffield Shield history. During this innings, Marsh shared a 1st wicket partnership of 431 with Mike Veletta
Michael Robert John Veletta (born 30 October 1963) is a former Australian cricketer.
He played in eight Test matches and 20 One Day Internationals between 1987 and 1990. He played 127 first-class matches including 114 Sheffield Shield matche ...
, the highest ever first wicket partnership in interstate cricket.
;1990s
* Steve Waugh
Stephen Rodger Waugh (born 2 June 1965) is an Australian former international cricketer and twin brother of cricketer Mark Waugh. A right-handed batsman, he was also a medium-pace bowler. As Australian captain from 1997 to 2004, he led Australi ...
and Mark Waugh
Mark Edward Waugh (born 2 June 1965) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer, who represented Australia in Test matches from early 1991 to late 2002, after previously making his One Day International (ODI) debu ...
put on a partnership of 464* for New South Wales against Western Australia in 1990
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, which is the highest partnership in Sheffield Shield history.
* On 30 January 1993, Curtly Ambrose had a stunning spell of 7–1 (eventually 7/25) as Australia crashed from 3–85 to 119 all out
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* The largest cricket crowd at the WACA, 28,210, was recorded on 16 January 1994 when Australia played South Africa in a One Day International match.
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* The largest crowd at the WACA of 34,317 attended the AFL Preliminary Final between the West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football ...
and the Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, ...
, 24 September 1994.
* In 1995, watched by a record 24,392, the Western Reds Rugby League team made its debut in ARL competition, defeating St George 28–16.
* On 24 June 1995, First ever international friendly soccer played at the WACA of 11,634. Socceroos
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vs Ghana and lost 0-1.
* The Western Warriors defeated the Queensland Bulls
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*Sheffield Shield: four-day matches with first-class status, since the 1926–27 sea ...
in the final of the 1999/2000 Australian one day domestic competition. WA batted first and made 301. Queensland was in a comfortable position at 1/202 in the 30th over, only to collapse to be all out for 256 in the 46th over.
;2000s
* On 1 December 2000, Australia's Glenn McGrath
Glenn Donald McGrath (; born 9 February 1970) is an Australian former international cricketer who played international cricket for 14 years. He was a fast-medium pace bowler (cricket), bowler and is considered one of the greatest international ...
took a Test hat-trick, dismissing the West Indian batsmen Sherwin Campbell
Sherwin Legay Campbell (born 1 November 1970) is a former Barbadian cricketer who played 52 Tests and 90 One Day Internationals for the West Indies, and also a former ODI captain for Windies.
Domestic career
Campbell played a total of 177 fi ...
, Brian Lara
Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing reco ...
, and captain Jimmy Adams
James Clive Adams OD (born 9 January 1968) is a former Jamaican cricketer, who represented the West Indies as player and captain during his career. He was a left-handed batsman, left-arm orthodox spin bowler and fielder, especially in th ...
, taking his 300th Test wicket in the process (Lara). This also lead the way to Australia's first ever win against the West Indies at the WACA after 5 losses (including 3 by an innings) from previous encounters stretching back as far as 1975
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* In February 2001, Australia's Damien Martyn
Damien Richard Martyn (born 21 October 1971) is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. He played for the national team sporadically in 1992–1994 before becoming a regular ODI player from 1999 to 20 ...
scored 144* against Zimbabwe in a one-day international, the highest ODI score for an individual at the ground. Australia won the game by one run
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* Australia's Matthew Hayden
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scored a then Test-record 380 against Zimbabwe
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in 2003, surpassing Brian Lara's world record highest score of 375. Australia declared at 735–6, the highest ever team total compiled at the ground in Tests
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* In 2004, at the age of 34, Glenn McGrath took eight wickets for 24 runs against Pakistan, his best Test bowling figures, and the best ever Test bowling figures at the WACA
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* On 8 May 2004, KISS
A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, ...
kicked off their Rock the Nation Tour at the WACA.
* On 12 January 2005, the WACA hosted Australia's first Twenty20
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match, played between the Western Warriors and the Victorian Bushrangers
The Victoria men’s cricket team is an Australian first-class men's cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria. The men’s team, which first played in 1851, represents the state of Victoria in the Marsh Sheffield Shield first-class competi ...
. It drew a sellout crowd of 20,700 – the largest seen at the ground for many years.
* Chris Rogers and Marcus North
Marcus James North (born 28 July 1979) is a former Australian first-class cricketer who played 21 Test cricket, Test matches and two One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the Australia national cricket team, Australian national side.
Born in Melbo ...
put on a partnership of 459, Western Australia v Victoria, in October 2006
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. This is the third highest partnership and highest partnership for the third wicket in Sheffield Shield history. Rogers' score of 279 was at the time the second highest ever by a West Australian, behind the 355* that Geoff Marsh scored at the same ground in December 1989.
*Australian wicket keeper
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Adam Gilchrist
Adam Craig Gilchrist (; born 14 November 1971) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer and captain of the Australia national cricket team. He was an attacking left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keep ...
hit the second fastest hundred in Test match history (now the fourth fastest), off 57 balls, in the 3rd Ashes Test match, in December 2006.[Scorecard]
This was just one more ball than the record set by Viv Richards
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in 1985–1986. It eclipsed the previous Australian record of a hundred off 67 balls set by Jack Gregory at Johannesburg
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in 1921–1922. Gilchrist did not score a run from seven of his first nine deliveries.
*The WACA hosted its first Twenty20 International
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match on 11 December 2007. Australia defeated New Zealand by 55 runs
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*India defeated Australia by 72 runs to end Australia's record-equaling Test match winning streak of 16 consecutive wins, in January 2008
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*South Africa defeated Australia by six wickets in a Test match in December 2008, achieving the second-highest successful run chase in Test history when they reached the victory target of 414 late in the second session on the final day, for the loss of just four wickets. In the match, Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson
Mitchell Guy Johnson (born 2 November 1981) is a former Australian cricketer, who played all forms of the game for his national side. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He made his Test debut for Australia in November 2007 ...
became the first left-arm paceman to take eight wickets in a Test innings with figures of 8/61 in South Africa's first innings
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*In December 2009, West Indian Chris Gayle
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scored the fifth-fastest hundred in Test cricket history, against Australia (now the eighth fastest). His hundred came off just 70 balls and included six sixes and nine fours
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;2010s
*During a one-day international between Australia and Pakistan in January 2010, Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi
Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi ( ur, شاہد افریدی, ps, شاهد افریدی; born 1 March 1977), known as Shahid Afridi, is a Pakistani former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. He is current ...
was captured by television cameras making two solid biting motions into the ball; he was suspended for two matches after pleading guilty to ball tampering
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Unde ...
. In the same game, Pakistan player Khalid Latif was crash-tackled to the ground by a spectator who had run onto the ground to reach the cricketer, later leading to intense scrutiny of the WACA's security measures.
* In January 2012, Australian batsman David Warner David or Dave Warner may refer to:
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* Dave Warner (strongman) (born 1969), Northern Ireland strongman competitor
* David Bruce Warner (born 1970), South African alpine skier
* David Warner (cricketer) (born 1986), Australian cricketer
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scored a century off 69 balls against India, the equal fourth fastest hundred in Test cricket history shared with Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Shivnarine "Shiv" Chanderpaul (born 16 August 1974) is a Guyanese cricket coach and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. Considered one of the greatest batsmen of his era, Chanderpaul is the first Indo-Caribbean to play 100 Tests for ...
of the West Indies (now equal sixth fastest).[Scorecard]
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* Liam Davis and Adam Voges
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had a 343-run partnership for Western Australia v New South Wales in February 2012
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. This ranks inside the top-five WA partnerships of all time and marked the best third-wicket WA partnership against NSW. Davis' score of 303* is the 16th highest score in Sheffield Shield history.
*The Guinness World Record
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for the highest basketball shot in the world was thrown from one of the four flood-light towers at the WACA
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*In January 2014, the WACA hosted its third women's Test match, between England and Australia. In a low scoring contest, in which the momentum ebbed and flowed until the final morning, England emerged the winner, by 61 runs, but Ellyse Perry
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of Australia was awarded player of the match
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. England's veteran captain Charlotte Edwards
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has since described the Test as "the most incredible match I'll ever play in".
*On 13 November 2015 David Warner scored 253 against New Zealand, which at the time was the second highest test score at the ground In the same game on 15 November, Ross Taylor
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scored 290, the highest total against an Australian team in Australia. Also he overtook Warner's score in the previous innings to make the second highest test score at the ground.Ross Taylor ticks off records during epic 290
''The Times of India
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'' 16 November 2015
*On 14 December 2017, WACA hosted its final Ashes Test, and possibly final international match. In that match, both Dawid Malan
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(140) and Mitchell Marsh
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scored their maiden Test centuries (Marsh reached 181) and Jonny Bairstow
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scored his first century in Australia, Steve Smith Stephen, Steve, Stevie, or Steven Smith may refer to:
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* Steve Smith (political scientist) (born 1952), British international relations theorist and senior university manager
* Stephen Smith (journalist) (born 1956), American journalist, ...
scored his maiden home Test double-century, then went on to his highest Test score (239). Smith and Marsh also achieved the highest partnership for the 5th wicket at the WACA (301). The match ended with Australia regaining the Ashes
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*On 25 January 2018, the WACA hosted its final Big Bash League
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match - Perth Scorchers
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The Scorchers are the current BBL Champions, having defeated the Sydney Sixers in the ...
V Adelaide Strikers
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Test cricket records
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Last updated 4 July 2022.
Cricket museum
The WACA has a cricket museum just next to the ground. Visitors can view memorabilia of Australian cricket
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They display not only the history of cricket, but also other sports played at the WACA.
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