You can spend hours with your nose in this book. It’s jam-packed with memories for those who are cricket fans, great photos for the armchair historians, and wonderful nuggets of information. For instance, I had no idea that the first Ashes test match to be played at the WACA was in fact a women’s Ashes Test in 1958 - twelve years ahead of the men in 1970. I also didn’t know that the original site for the ground was where Elizabeth Quay now stands.
All the great players are in this book, with all the different forms of cricket represented as well as beautiful archival photos to accompany the text. It is a fabulous souvenir record of more than a century of cricket in Perth. Only one more Ashes Test will be played at the ground that has thus far seen eight Australian victories from twelve matches. Fingers crossed this last one will make it nine.
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