Updates from the first day at the Waca in the third Ashes TestICC admits allegations of Ashes spot-fixing plot are `of grave concernīVirtual reality gives ECB tantalising portrait of future Ashes seriesAnd feel free to email Geoff or fire him a tweet @GeoffLemonSport 1.42am GMT I have just remembered that under the Guardianīs house style, I should type the groundīs name as the Waca, not the WACA. Never the WACA. On the Guardian, acronyms that are said as words are then typed as words, whereas ones that are said as letters are typed as letters. Hello FBI and CIA. Sometimes, though, a formal gent like Richie Benaud would say, `Welcome to the W.A.C.A. ground,` so as far as Iīm concerned that punctuation is totally legit. 1.28am GMT Whatīs going on in PerthTo set the scene: we hear a lot about the fast and bouncy Waca, but this is a bit like Uncle Rico telling you when he used to be a star quarterback. `Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we woulda been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.` After they relaid the square around the turn of the millenium, itīs mostly been a pudding. Flat track, millions of runs in it. The groundsman is leaving for the MCG after this Test, and itīll be the last Ashes Test at the Waca, so he may have been tempted to leave a lot of grass on it and make it more a bowlerīs wicket. But even then, the glimpses we had seemed pretty dry, and Steve Smith reckoned it was a bit soft as well yesterday. So, win the toss and bat. And bat. And bat. Joe Root had better hope his mob can find those hundreds theyīve been searching for. Continue reading...
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