Perth will be the big winner when Cricket Australia announces the schedule for next summer’s India Test series, while Adelaide and Brisbane will miss out on their preferred timeslots.
Perth will host the first Test of next summer’s blockbuster series against India.Western Australia is poised to be the big winner when Cricket Australia announces the schedule for next season’s blockbuster five-Test series against India, with Perth to host the first Test despite poor recent attendances.
Instead, Adelaide will host the second Test and Brisbane the third, with the Boxing Day and New Year’s Tests keeping their traditional timeslots in Melbourne and Sydney. While Brisbane’s preference was to be reinstated as the traditional host of the first Test, it will have the consolation of its Test running into the school holidays, raising its chances of attracting a bumper crowd.
Significantly, those two losses came in two of just three Tests over the past 30 years in Brisbane which were not the first of a series.Sources close to CA, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the schedule has not yet been officially announced, confirmed enhancing Test cricket in Perth was a priority for the governing body. The new 60,000-seat Perth Stadium has been sparsely occupied during Tests in recent seasons, but packed for the Perth Scorchers in the BBL.
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