Hobart expected to be handed fifth Ashes Test

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Hobart is expected to be formally announced as the venue for a day/night fifth Ashes Test inside the next 24 hours, the first time Tasmania has hosted a chapter of cricket’s oldest contest | danbrettig

– believed to be as much as $5 million – helped seal a fixture that also substitutes for the lost Afghanistan Test earlier this season.

to host the day/night match – a notion that CA’s chief executive Nick Hockley and the board chose to put to the test. However, the eagerness with which Tasmania pushed for the fixture, including numerous discussions between Hockley and the state’sAs much as Victoria and NSW, their cricket associations, venues and state governments, would have loved an additional Ashes Test with a pink ball, none were dealing with the one or none scenario faced by Tasmania.

 

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