The pitch used in the first Test in Perth has given a rating of “very good” – the highest available – by the International Cricket Council. <\/p>\n
The match was the first Ashes Test to finish inside two days for 104 years with 19 wickets falling on day one and a further 13 on day two. <\/p>\n
The four-tier system has “very good” as its highest mark – with the characteristics needed for that mark outlined as: “Good carry, limited seam movement, and consistent bounce early in the match, allowing for a balanced contest between batters and bowlers”.<\/p>\n
The match lasted 847 deliveries, which is the third-fewest in an Ashes Test and the second-shortest game of any Test in Australia. <\/p>\n
Cricket Australia’s chief of cricket James Allsopp said: “The match referee’s ‘very good’ rating justifies our belief Perth Stadium produced a pitch that provided a fair balance between bat and ball.<\/p>\n
“The dominance of some brilliant pace bowling from both sides and the frenetic nature of the contest meant the match lasted only two days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pitch used in the first Test in Perth has given a rating of “very good” – the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-286241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}