Cricket Australia introduced the venues for the upcoming five-match Test collection towards India with Perth’s Optus Stadium to host the primary Test prone to happen in November regardless of having a low attendance in a lately concluded match towards Pakistan. Cricket Australia together with Western Australia will work collectively and take a look at their greatest to enhance the attendance in Perth’s stadium.

Sources near the board, who spoke on the situation of anonymity as a result of the schedule has but to be formally revealed, stated that bettering Test cricket in Perth was a high objective for the governing physique. The new 60,000-seat Perth Stadium has been barely occupied for Tests in earlier seasons, though it’s a lot busier throughout Perth Scorchers BBL matches.

The highest attendance on the stadium was throughout the Perth Scorchers match within the Big Bash League which was 28,494 and the bottom was throughout the Test collection towards Pakistan (17,666).

With India and England set to journey to Australia over the subsequent two years, Perth’s Test attendance figures are anticipated to rise.

The sources additional revealed that enjoying the collection opener in Perth, with a three-hour time distinction, and the day-night Test in Adelaide would supply cricket with a primetime lead-up to the Big Bash on Channel Seven and Fox. The Twenty20 competitors might doubtlessly proceed uninterrupted from mid-December till the tip of January.

The second match of the collection will likely be performed at Adelaide Oval and Brisbane’s The Gabba will host the third Test match. The Boxing Day Test will likely be held on the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground and the final match of the collection will likely be performed on the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Cricket Australia has but to launch the schedule for subsequent season, with an announcement probably on the finish of the month. However, the board has introduced the whole particulars of upcoming season of Men and Women’s Big Bash League.

“The schedule is yet to be finalised,” a Cricket Australia spokesman asserted as quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald.

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