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WACA Ground

Index WACA Ground

The WACA (formally the WACA Ground) is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia. [1]

159 relations: Adam Gilchrist, Adam Voges, Adelaide Strikers, Alan Hurst (cricketer), Aluminium, America's Cup, Andrew Hilditch, Association football, Australia national cricket team, Australian Baseball League (1989–99), Australian dollar, Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament, Australian Football League, Australian rules football, Ball tampering, Baseball, Benson & Hedges Challenge, Big Bash League, Bob Willis, Brian Lara, Brian Luckhurst, Burswood, Western Australia, Chris Gayle, Chris Rogers (cricketer), City of Perth, ComBat, Cricket, Cricket Australia, Cricket pitch, Curtly Ambrose, Damien Martyn, David Gower, David Warner (cricketer), Dawid Malan, Dennis Lillee, Don Bradman, Doug Walters, East Perth, Western Australia, England, England cricket team, ESPN, ESPN Inc., ESPNcricinfo, Fee simple, First-class cricket, Floodlight, Fox Sports (Australia), Fremantle Doctor, Fremantle Football Club, Geoff Lawson (cricketer), ..., Geoff Marsh, George Shenton, Geraldton Guardian, Glenn McGrath, Gloucester Park, Greg Chappell, Guinness World Records, Handled the ball, Hat-trick, Herald Sun, Hobart Hurricanes, Ian Botham, Ian Brayshaw, Ian Redpath, India national cricket team, International rules football, Jack Gregory (cricketer), James Gardiner (Australian politician), Javed Miandad, Jhye Richardson, Jimmy Adams, Johannesburg, John Charles Horsey James, John Edrich, John Inverarity, Jonny Bairstow, Kerry Packer, Khalid Latif (cricketer), Kiss (band), Liam Davis (cricketer), List of international cricket centuries at the WACA Ground, Marcus North, Mark Greatbatch, Mark Waugh, Matthew Hayden, Matthew Kelly (cricketer), Melbourne Football Club, Merv Hughes, Mike Brearley, Mike Veletta, Mitchell Johnson (cricketer), Mitchell Marsh, National Rugby League, New Zealand national cricket team, Nightwatchman (cricket), One Day International, Pakistan national cricket team, Perth, Perth Football Club, Perth Heat, Perth Scorchers, Perth Scorchers (WBBL), Perth Stadium, Queensland cricket team, Rock concert, Rock the Nation World Tour, Rodney Hogg, Ross Taylor, Roy Fredericks, Rugby league, Rugby union, Sarfraz Nawaz, Seating capacity, Shahid Afridi, Sheffield Shield, Sherwin Campbell, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sikander Bakht (cricketer), South Africa national cricket team, South Australia cricket team, Stadium, Steve Smith (cricketer), Steve Waugh, Subiaco Oval, Swing bowling, Terry Alderman, Test cricket, The Ashes, The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones Pacific Tour 1973, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Times of India, The West Australian, Tim Bresnan, Tony Crafter, Tony Mann (cricketer), Track and field, Twenty20 International, Types of bowlers in cricket, Victoria cricket team, Viv Richards, WA Reds, West Australian Football League, West Coast Eagles, West Indies cricket team, Western Australia, Western Australia cricket team, Western Australian Cricket Association, Western Fury, Wicket-keeper, Willow, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Women's Big Bash League, Women's National Cricket League, World Series Cricket, Zimbabwe Cricket, 2015 Cricket World Cup, 2017–18 Ashes series, 999-year lease. Expand index (109 more) »

Adam Gilchrist

Adam Craig Gilchrist, AM (born 14 November 1971), nicknamed "Gilly" or "Churchy", is a former Australian international cricketer and former captain of Australian national team.

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Adam Voges

Adam Charles Voges (born 4 October 1979) is a former Australian cricketer who played for the Australian national team at Test, One Day International (ODI), and Twenty20 International (T20I) level, and also captained Western Australia and Perth Scorchers in domestic cricket.

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Adelaide Strikers

The Adelaide Strikers are an Australian men's professional Twenty20 cricket team that competes in Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League.

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Alan Hurst (cricketer)

Alan George Hurst (born 15 July 1950 at Altona, Victoria) is a former Australian cricketer who played in twelve Tests and eight ODIs between 1975 and 1979.

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Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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America's Cup

The America's Cup, affectionately known as the "Auld Mug", is a trophy awarded to the winner of the America's Cup match races between two sailing yachts.

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Andrew Hilditch

Andrew Mark Jefferson Hilditch (born 20 May 1956) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 18 Tests and 8 ODIs from 1979 to 1985.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Australian Baseball League (1989–99)

The Australian Baseball League (ABL) was a baseball league, established in 1987 and disbanded in 1999.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament

A limited-overs cricket tournament has been a feature of Australian cricket since the 1969–70 season, branded as the JLT One-Day Cup for the 2017–18 season.

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Australian Football League

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football in Australia and features only Australian teams.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Ball tampering

In the sport of cricket, ball tampering is an action in which a fielder illegally alters the condition of the ball.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Benson & Hedges Challenge

The Benson and Hedges Challenge (also known as "The Perth Challenge" or simply "Perth Challenge" by non-commercial broadcasters such as ABC Local Radio) was a one-off one-day international cricket tournament played at the WACA Ground in Perth, Western Australia from 30 December 1986 to 7 January 1987 as part of the 1987 America's Cup Festival of Sport.

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Big Bash League

The Big Bash League (BBL, also known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons) is an Australian professional Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia.

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Bob Willis

Robert George Dylan Willis MBE (born Robert George Willis on 30 May 1949), known as Bob Willis, is an English former cricketer, who played for Surrey, Warwickshire, Northern Transvaal and England.

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Brian Lara

The Honourable Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer.

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Brian Luckhurst

Brian William Luckhurst (5 February 1939 – 1 March 2005) was an English cricketer, who played his entire county career for Kent County Cricket Club.

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Burswood, Western Australia

Burswood is an inner southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located immediately across the Swan River from Perth's central business district (CBD).

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Chris Gayle

Christopher Henry Gayle, OD (born 21 September 1979) is a Jamaican cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies.

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Chris Rogers (cricketer)

Christopher John Llewellyn Rogers (born 31 August 1977) is a former Australian cricketer who played for Australian national team.

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City of Perth

The City of Perth is a local government area and body, within the Perth metropolitan area, which is the capital of Western Australia.

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ComBat

The ComBat was an aluminium cricket bat and the subject of an incident that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia.

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Cricket pitch

In the game of cricket, the cricket pitch consists of the central strip of the cricket field between the wickets.

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Curtly Ambrose

Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose, KCN (born 21 September 1963) is a former cricketer from Antigua who played 98 Test matches for the West Indies.

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Damien Martyn

Damien Richard Martyn (born 21 October 1971) is a former Australian cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs.

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David Gower

David Ivon Gower OBE (born 1 April 1957) is a former English cricketer who became the captain of the England cricket team during the 1980s.

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David Warner (cricketer)

David Andrew Warner (born 27 October 1986) is an Australian international cricketer and a former captain of the Australian national team in Limited overs cricket.

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Dawid Malan

Dawid Johannes Malan (born 3 September 1987) is an English cricketer who plays for England and captains Middlesex.

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Dennis Lillee

Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949) is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation".

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Don Bradman

Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.

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Doug Walters

Doug Walters MBE (born 21 December 1945 in Dungog, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricketer.

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East Perth, Western Australia

East Perth is an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth CBD.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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ESPN Inc.

ESPN Inc. is an American sports media conglomerate based in Bristol, Connecticut.

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ESPNcricinfo

ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.

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Fee simple

In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Floodlight

Floodlights are broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial lights.

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Fox Sports (Australia)

Fox Sports is an Australian group of sports channels, owned by Fox Sports Pty Limited (known as Premier Media Group until February 2012), which is owned by News Corp Australia.

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Fremantle Doctor

The Fremantle Doctor, the Freo Doctor, or simply The Doctor is the Western Australian vernacular term for the cooling afternoon sea breeze which occurs during summer months in south west coastal areas of Western Australia.

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Fremantle Football Club

The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Geoff Lawson (cricketer)

Geoffrey Francis Lawson, OAM (born 7 December 1957) is a former Australian cricketer and the former coach of the Pakistan cricket team.

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Geoff Marsh

Geoffrey Robert Marsh (born 31 December 1958) is a former Australian cricketer, coach and selector.

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George Shenton

Sir George Shenton (4 March 1842 – 29 June 1909) was a prominent businessman in colonial Western Australia, the first Mayor of Perth, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for over thirty years.

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Geraldton Guardian

The Geraldton Guardian was established at Geraldton, Western Australia on 1 October 1906 to serve the Victoria and Murchison Districts.

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Glenn McGrath

Glenn Donald McGrath AM (born 9 February 1970) is an Australian former international cricketer, who played all formats of the game for fourteen years.

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Gloucester Park

Gloucester Park is a harness racing course in Perth, Western Australia.

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Greg Chappell

Gregory Stephen Chappell MBE (born 7 August 1948) is a former cricketer who represented Australia at international level in both Tests and One-Day Internationals (ODI).

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Handled the ball

Handled the ball was formerly one of the methods of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket, but was integrated into the Law on obstructing the field when the Laws of Cricket were rewritten in 2017.

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Hat-trick

A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a positive feat three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three.

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Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a morning newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and NSW South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In March 2009, the paper had a daily circulation of 530,000 from Monday to Friday.

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Hobart Hurricanes

The Hobart Hurricanes are an Australian professional men's T20 cricket team based in Tasmania, Australia.

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Ian Botham

Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955) is an English former cricketer and current cricket commentator.

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Ian Brayshaw

Ian James Brayshaw (born 14 January 1942) is a former Australian sportsman.

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Ian Redpath

Ian Ritchie Redpath (born 11 May 1941, Geelong, Victoria) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 66 Tests and 5 ODIs from 1964 to 1976.

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India national cricket team

The India national cricket team, also known as Team India and Men in Blue, is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.

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International rules football

International rules football (Peil na rialacha idirnáisiunta; also known as inter rules in Australia and compromise rules in Ireland) is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players.

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Jack Gregory (cricketer)

Jack Morrison Gregory (14 August 1895 – 7 August 1973) was an Australian cricketer.

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James Gardiner (Australian politician)

James Gardiner (12 June 1861 – 27 October 1928) was an Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1901 to 1904 and from 1914 to 1921.

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Javed Miandad

Mohammad Javed Miandad (Urdu:; born 12 June 1957), popularly known as Javed Miandad (Urdu), is a former Pakistani cricketer known for his unconventional style of captaincy and batting.

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Jhye Richardson

Jhye Avon Richardson (born 20 September 1996) is an Australian cricketer.

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Jimmy Adams

James Clive Adams (born 9 January 1968) is a former Jamaican cricketer, who represented the West Indies as player and captain during his career.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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John Charles Horsey James

John Charles Horsey James (30 January 1841 in Rome, Italy – 3 February 1899 in Perth, Western Australia) was a magistrate in Western Australia and the inaugural president of the Western Australian Cricket Association from 1885.

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John Edrich

John Hugh Edrich, (born 21 June 1937) is a former English first-class cricketer who, during a career that ran from 1956 to 1978, was considered one of the best batsmen of his generation.

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John Inverarity

Robert John Inverarity (born 31 January 1944) is a former Australian cricketer who played six Test matches for Australia.

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Jonny Bairstow

Jonathan Marc Bairstow (born 26 September 1989) is an English cricketer, who plays first-class cricket for Yorkshire and England.

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Kerry Packer

Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon.

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Khalid Latif (cricketer)

Khalid Latif (خالد لطیف; born 4 November 1985) is a Pakistani cricketer.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley.

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Liam Davis (cricketer)

Liam Murray Davis (born 2 August 1984) is an Australian cricketer, currently contracted to Western Australia in Australian domestic cricket.

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List of international cricket centuries at the WACA Ground

The WACA Ground (pronounced wakka) is a 24,500 capacity cricket stadium situated in Perth, Western Australia.

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Marcus North

Marcus James North (born 28 July 1979) is a former Australian first-class cricketer who played 21 Test matches and two One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the Australian national side.

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Mark Greatbatch

Mark John Greatbatch (born on 11 December 1963 in Auckland) is a former New Zealand cricketer.

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Mark Waugh

Mark Edward Waugh AM (born 2 June 1965) is a former Australian international cricketer, who represented Australia in Test matches from early 1991 to late 2002, and made his One Day International debut in 1988.

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Matthew Hayden

Matthew Lawrence Hayden AM (born 29 October 1971) is a former Australian international cricketer.

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Matthew Kelly (cricketer)

Matthew Kelly (born 7 December 1994) is an Australian cricketer.

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Melbourne Football Club

The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club, playing in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Merv Hughes

Mervyn Gregory Hughes (born 23 November 1961) is a former Australian cricketer living in Melbourne.

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Mike Brearley

John Michael Brearley OBE (born 28 April 1942) is a retired English first-class cricketer who captained Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England.

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Mike Veletta

Michael Robert John Veletta (born 30 October 1963, in Perth, Western Australia) is a former Australian and Western Australian cricketer.

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Mitchell Johnson (cricketer)

Mitchell Guy Johnson (born 2 November 1981) is a former Australian international cricketer, who played all forms of the game until his retirement from international cricket in 2015.

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Mitchell Marsh

Mitchell Ross Marsh (born 20 October 1991) is an Australian international cricketer who is contracted domestically to Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers.

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National Rugby League

The National Rugby League (NRL) is a league of professional men's rugby league teams in Australasia.

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New Zealand national cricket team

The New Zealand national cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, played their first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket.

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Nightwatchman (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a nightwatchman is a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play.

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One Day International

A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, usually 50.

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Pakistan national cricket team

The Pakistan national cricket team (پاکستان قومی کرکٹ ٹیم), popularly referred to as the Shaheens (شاہینز), Green Shirts and Men in Green, is administered by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Perth Football Club

The Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football club based in Lathlain, Western Australia, currently playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

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Perth Heat

The Perth Heat is a baseball team in the current Australian Baseball League and a foundation member of the Australian Baseball League.

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Perth Scorchers

The Perth Scorchers are an Australian domestic Twenty20 cricket team representing Perth in the Big Bash League (BBL).

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Perth Scorchers (WBBL)

The Perth Scorchers WBBL team is a women's cricket team based in Perth, Australia.

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Perth Stadium

Perth Stadium, also known by naming rights sponsorship as Optus Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Perth, Western Australia, located in the suburb of Burswood.

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Queensland cricket team

The Queensland cricket team or the Queensland Bulls, is the Brisbane-based Queensland representative cricket side in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments.

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Rock concert

A rock concert is a musical performance in the style of any one of many genres inspired by "rock and roll" music.

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Rock the Nation World Tour

The Rock The Nation World Tour was a concert tour by the hard rock group Kiss.

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Rodney Hogg

Rodney Malcolm Hogg (born 5 March 1951) is a former Victorian, South Australian and Australian cricketer.

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Ross Taylor

Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor (born 8 March 1984) is a New Zealand cricketer, who has batted predominantly at number 4.

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Roy Fredericks

Roy Clifton Fredericks (11 November 1942, Blairmont, British Guiana – 5 September 2000, New York, U.S.) was a West Indian cricketer who played Test cricket from 1968 to 1977.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sarfraz Nawaz

Sarfraz Nawaz Malik (Punjabi, سرفراز نواز ملک) (born 1 December 1948) is a former Pakistani Test cricketer and politician who discovered reverse swing and was instrumental in Pakistan's first Test series victories over India and England.

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Seating capacity

Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.

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Shahid Afridi

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi (شاہدافریدی; شاهد اپریدی; born 1980), popularly known as Boom Boom, is a former Pakistani cricketer and former captain of the Pakistan national cricket team.

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Sheffield Shield

The Sheffield Shield is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia.

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Sherwin Campbell

Sherwin Legay Campbell (born 1 November 1970) is a former Barbadian cricketer who played 52 Tests and 90 One Day Internationals for the West Indies, and also a former ODI captain for Windies.

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivnarine Chanderpaul (born 16 August 1974) is a Guyanese cricketer and former West Indian international cricketer and captain of the West Indies cricket team.

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Sikander Bakht (cricketer)

Sikander Bakht (born August 25, 1957 in Karachi, Sindh) is a former international cricketer who played in 26 Tests and 27 ODIs for Pakistan from 1976 to 1989.

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South Africa national cricket team

The South African national cricket team, nicknamed the Proteas (after South Africa's national flower, Protea cynaroides, commonly known as the "king protea"), is administered by Cricket South Africa.

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South Australia cricket team

The South Australia cricket team, named West End Redbacks, nicknamed "the Southern Redbacks", is an Australian men's professional first class cricket team based in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Stadium

A stadium (plural stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.

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Steve Smith (cricketer)

Steven Peter Devereux Smith (born 2 June 1989) is an Australian international cricketer and former captain of the Australian national team.

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Steve Waugh

Stephen Rodger Waugh, AO (born 2 June 1965) is a former Australian international cricketer and twin brother of cricketer Mark Waugh.

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Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval (also known under naming rights from 2015-17 as Domain Stadium, and colloquially as Subi) is a disused stadium located in Subiaco, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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Swing bowling

Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket.

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Terry Alderman

Terence Michael Alderman (born 12 June 1956 in Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm fast-medium bowler.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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The Ashes

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Rolling Stones Pacific Tour 1973

The Rolling Stones Pacific Tour 1973 was a concert tour of countries bordering the Pacific Ocean in January and February 1973 by The Rolling Stones.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Times of India

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Tim Bresnan

Timothy Thomas Bresnan (born 28 February 1985) is an English first-class cricketer.

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Tony Crafter

Anthony Ronald (Tony) Crafter, (born 5 December 1940 in Mount Barker, South Australia), is a retired Australian Test cricket match umpire.

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Tony Mann (cricketer)

Anthony Longford Mann (born 8 November 1945) is an Australian former cricketer who played in 4 Tests from 1977 to 1978.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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Twenty20 International

A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces twenty overs.

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Types of bowlers in cricket

In the sport of cricket there are two broad categories of bowlers: pace and spin.

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Victoria cricket team

The Victoria cricket team, who were until 2018 named Victorian Bushrangers, is an Australian first class cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE (born 7 March 1952), known as Viv Richards, is a former Antiguan cricketer, who represented the West Indies at test and international levels.

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WA Reds

The Western Reds were a rugby league football club based in Perth, Western Australia.

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West Australian Football League

The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia.

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West Coast Eagles

The West Coast Eagles, also known as West Coast, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia.

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West Indies cricket team

The West Indies cricket team, colloquially known as and (since June 2017) officially branded as the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Western Australia cricket team

The Western Australia cricket team, nicknamed the Western Warriors, represent the Australian state of Western Australia in Australian domestic cricket.

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Western Australian Cricket Association

The Western Australian Cricket Association (known as the WACA) is the governing body for cricket in Western Australia.

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Western Fury

The Western Fury is the representative women's cricket team of Western Australia and is based in Perth, Western Australia.

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Wicket-keeper

The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and be ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.

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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (or simply Wisden or colloquially "the Bible of Cricket") is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom.

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Women's Big Bash League

The Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) is the Australian women's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition.

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Women's National Cricket League

The Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) is the national competition for women's cricket in Australia.

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World Series Cricket

World Series Cricket (WSC) was a break away professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 and organised by Kerry Packer for his Australian television network, Nine Network.

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Zimbabwe Cricket

Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), known as the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) until 2004, is the governing body for the sport of cricket in Zimbabwe.

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2015 Cricket World Cup

The 2015 Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Cricket World Cup 2015) was the 11th Cricket World Cup, jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015.

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2017–18 Ashes series

The 2017–18 Ashes series (named Magellan Ashes Series for sponsorship reasons) was a series of Test cricket matches contested between England and Australia for The Ashes.

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999-year lease

A 999-year lease, under historic common law, is an essentially permanent lease of property.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WACA_Ground

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