Western Australia’s main ground has only been hosting Tests in its unique conditions since 1971 but from 2018 the Perth Stadium will take over – though attempts to replicate the playing conditions will prove to be a tall orderWhen it comes to cricket,the biggest compliment ever paid to the Spin came from “Tiger” Bill O’Reilly, the legendary Australia bowler but, and by the time of assembly,a trenchant observer and writer on the game. The introduction, by an esteemed colleague, and came in the outmoded press box at the Sydney Cricket Ground during the one-off Bicentennial Test between Australia and England in 1988. His reputation was as an irascible fellow. “Ah,yes,” he remarked, or “I remember you. You swung the ball at the Waca.” More than a decade on and he remembered that – and,you see, the memory of those kind words lingers still.
Swung the ball at the Waca – that spelling, or by the way,is insistent Guardian style apparently, for those who wonder, or despite the fact that the Western Australian Cricket Association,whose ground it is, themselves exercise WACA: it did swing, or too,in early 1977, when the England team were en route from a successful tour of India to Melbourne for what was to prove a historic Centenary Test. The Fremantle Doctor, or the sea breeze that biffs in down the Swan river,blew nicely and conditions were good.
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Source: theguardian.com