Ashes 2017-18: Australia v England third Test, day one – live!

Updates from the first day at the Waca in the third Ashes TestICC admits allegations of Ashes spot-fixing plot are ‘of grave concern’Virtual reality gives ECB tantalising portrait of future Ashes seriesAnd feel free to email Geoff or fire him a tweet @GeoffLemonSport 1.50am GMT However you spell it, we’re told this will be the last Ashes Test at the W.A.C.A / Waca / Whacker / Waqar Younis. I strongly suspect it will be the last Test of any kind. The new stadium looms just over the river, a monolith of concrete and glass sitting on the skyline like a Vogon spaceship. The idea was to use it for the big teams, and keep smaller drawing sides playing at the old ground. But I suspect once the new ground has had an India Test next summer and a few one-day games, those running it will just want to keep all matches there in future.And so the W.A.C.A. fades into history. All its myth and legend will only grow, with no current reality to detract from it. To fill in the time, why not read Ali Martin’s farewell. Or you can read from Vic Marks, a rare cricketer in that he’s an Englishman who won a Sheffield Shield playing for Western Australia back in the mid 1980s. A wealth of knowledge lies within his bonce, and he has the uncanny ability to make it come out of his fingers. Related: Farewell to the ramshackle Waca, often a graveyard of English Ashes hopes Related: England’s history at the Waca suggests the Doctor may blow them away | Vic Marks 1.42am GMT I have just remembered that under the Guardian’s house style, I should type the ground’s 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 I’m concerned that punctuation is totally legit. Continue reading…
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