When premier Mark McGowan ruled out the possibility of granting exemptions from 14-day quarantine earlier this month, it appeared a foregone conclusion that the final Ashes Test of the summer would be moved from Optus Stadium.
“While absolutely every effort was made to ensure the final Test match of the series could be staged in Perth, border controls, quarantine requirements and the complexities of staging a five-Test series in a tight schedule have meant it is unfortunately not possible to align the respective priorities of the WA Government, CA and WA Cricket,” Cricket Australia said.
“We are extremely disappointed for our Members, fans, Commercial Partners and the wider WA cricket community as well as all our staff and players who have been looking forward to and planning for the first ever Ashes to be played at Perth Stadium,” she said. “This decision will not waiver our efforts to bring live cricket to Perth this summer as we continue to work closely with Cricket Australia and the WA Government,” she said.
The WA government raised eyebrows when it proposed swapping the locations of the second and fifth Tests.
You can't really compare cricket to people's health & lives.
Very embarrassing for MarkMcGowanMP
History we rule insanity
Difficult to accept? Are you kidding? It's the best decision, the ONLY one to safeguard public health. Thank you MarkMcGowanMP for not keeling over for sporting $$, unlike letitripdan Oh and BTW, we hosted a full house for AFL GF, this is just chicken feed by comparison yawn
🤣🤣🤣🤣 sucked in!
Unofficial 6th test, Eastern Australia vs Western Australia
Oh we’re all so devastated by this news over here. Yeah really 😪
WA wants to be its own country, maybe we could play a series against them?
Sucked in to MarkMcGowanMP and his supporters. Common sense has prevailed.
Play with fire and you get burned! They want to keep their border shut then suffer the consequences
Stiff. You got the AFL grand final so be thankful for that.
Great call by cricket Australia! You can’t have it both ways Mr. McGowan! You have imprisoned the people of WA for almost 2 years now with no empathy, no sympathy, just ruthless ignorance! Now you suddenly want it your way🙄 You lock your people in, the rest will lock you out!
It’s got to a point where you’re not locking people out anymore. You’re locking your people in. Glad you can suffer some consequence, hopefully other major sports follow suit.
I'm happy Tasmania in fact did not waste the ink in their printer 😅
As in all of life - you can’t have it all. If you’re comfy with the McGowan shutout, there’s a price to be paid.
From WA - I’m sure this is sad for fans but there are many who won’t be that disturbed
WA stuffed around to much
Just a touch of catastrophising there, I think.
And all states should be treated the same. Open up or miss out. Sick of your frikn lies. Fully vaccinated.pffft. lies lies lies.
Maybe the WA people are happy with living like they do since the start of this Pandemic🤔 Maybe some coverage of that😉👍
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