Leading Edge: A grand arena arises, but it won’t be the WACA

The WACA, where history lives.

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Perth

IT’S a funny old place, the WACA, with its thick, brutalist floodlight towers that have more than a bit of Benoni’s Willowmoore Park about them.

And the hodgepodge of stands that look like they have never seen a cloudy day. And the sawn off square boundaries.

And, of course, a pitch that behaves like an unreconstructed Aussie bloke circa 1973, the type who had beer for breakfast and Vegemite toasties for supper, sprinkled islan...