Pitches at New Perth stadium shipped

The preparation of Perth’s new stadium is going on in full rigour and zeal as five new drop-in pitches were delivered. The pitches were shipped from Gloucester Park to the state-of-the-art venue at Burswood. It is a major milestone in the view of hosting the inaugural Test match at the new stadium at Perth.

The entire execution of the process which comprised of lifting, transferring and relaying of the wicket took approximately 20 hours. Three of the drop-in pitches were relayed yesterday while the remaining ones were surfaced this morning.

WACA CEO Christina Matthews seemed elated with the recent developments for the new stadium at Perth. She was also excited about the upcoming phase of the completion of the project.

“This is an exciting milestone and I congratulate all involved in reaching this stage, in particular our Turf Team, led by head curator Matthew Page. The achievements to date on the production of the wickets have been significant and the next phase will be even more so.” stated an enthused Matthews according to sayings by cricket.com.au.

She further remarked about the belief she has on the people involved in the project. “I have absolute faith that we have the best people possible involved in this project and we continue to expect that we will be able to produce a wicket that provides WA cricket and the wider community with as entertaining a game as possible.”

The stadium with a capacity of over 60,000 is set to host the Perth Scorchers home matches in the upcoming edition of the KFC Big Bash League, along with the international fixtures against England, South Africa and India.

Curator Matthew page appeared ecstatic with the progress of the project and stated the wickets will only improve with time. He further suggested that the pitch condition will be constantly monitored in the coming months to infer the changes with respect to climatic condition.

“We’re really happy with what we’ve seen so far from these wickets and the further maturation time will only benefit them, There will be some learning experiences from moving the wickets to Perth Stadium, but we are excited by this next phase. While geographically only about a kilometre apart, there will be significant microclimate differences that will need to be managed and the WACA turf team will be on site daily at Perth Stadium to observe and test how the wickets adapt” concluded the WACA curator.