Nick Hockley, CA’s chief executive, said: “We are very disappointed that we are unable to stage the fifth Vodafone men’s Ashes Test at Perth Stadium. WA Cricket will be desperately disappointed at a second successive season without a Test match, but it is understood that players from both teams would have been resistant to re-entering a hard bubble environment, while the large number of people involved in staging a high-profile international – from broadcaster employees, to match officials and support staff – proved problematic in the current climate.Ī late proposal for Perth to stage the second Test in place of Adelaide always looked a logistical dead end and was duly rejected. Melbourne is comfortably the more lucrative option for CA, but taking the prestigious contest beyond its usual roadmap to the Bellerive Oval also has its proponents. The fifth Test will now be relocated, with Melbourne standing by to host its second game of the series as a day/nighter and officials in Tasmania lobby to bring Ashes cricket to Hobart for the first time. The local government in Western Australia has pursued a restrictive approach to incoming travel throughout the coronavirus pandemic and, while negotiations have been ongoing for several weeks around staging the fifth England Test, no settlement has been possible. There will be no Ashes Test in Perth after Cricket Australia finally bowed to the inevitable and accepted that border controls in the region meant a new venue would be needed for the series finale.

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