Festival of fast bowling leaves India on top after Australia collapse

There were no demons in the Perth pitch, but the hosts could not cope with the brilliance of Jasprit Bumrah

More than any pitch in the world, people talk about Perth. In our collective memory, it was always the Waca, fast and furious enough for decades of sequels.

These days the city’s cricket venue has hopped from the western bank of the Swan to the east at Perth Stadium, but in our collective contemporary consciousness the pitch is still essentially the Waca, spiritually the Waca. It was literally formed from the same clay, and as per the story about beings created that way, one half of the pair might as well have been made from the body of the other.

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Source: Cricket - The Guardian