Cricket Australia strips Perth of Ashes Test

The Western Australian Government’s stringent COVID-19 border restrictions threw the match into doubt after Premier Mark McGowan refused to budge on allowing players and staff to avoid the 14-day quarantine period upon arriving from Sydney.

Possible replacement venues include Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney, while Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein has also been an outspoken proponent of moving the Perth Test to Hobart. It comes after an eleventh-hour Hail Mary, the McGowan Government proposed to swap its fifth Test with South Australia’s second, meaning players and officials would be arriving from Brisbane

jKrizo69 sooks!

Tassie.

Quite right, punish the corrupt fascists & tyrant’s

They should have played the first one in Perth because Brisbane will be a wash out, rain forecast everyday and Thursday a likely wash out, test cricket is drowning🏏

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