Incidentally, legendary fast bowler Dennis Lillee had quit his post as the WACA President in 2015 because he didn't want the old venue to become a second-rung stadium and go the boutique way ...

India began preparations for the impending Border-Gavaskar Trophy series at the WACA ground, the old Test venue in Perth, Australia, but the stadium was reportedly covered to prevent public viewing.

They had been intimated in 2014 that the WACA stadium wasn't good enough to host India, but even building a new state-of-the-art stadium now seems insufficient. "All the metrics associated with ...