IND vs AUS: On a day when 17 wickets fell, Perth’s Optus Stadium achieves rare record

With Australian gait bowling onslaught led by Josh Hazlewood moving done India’s apical bid and the time seeing a towering six by Indian wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant which drew praise from the commentators and the crowd, the stadium besides saw Australia losing their archetypal 5 wickets for little than 40 runs. Earlier this month, erstwhile the stadium saw an attendance of lone 19,781 during Pakistan’s bid deciding triumph implicit Australia successful the 3rd ODI of the three-match series, Optus Stadium main Mike McKenna had criticised Cricket Australia’s determination to remainder 5 Australian players including skipper Pat Cummins.

“Balancing players’ needs for remainder and rotation is just capable fixed the magnitude of cricket they request to play, but you don’t instrumentality each of them retired astatine the aforesaid clip and effort and person america putting WA players successful a weakened squad is simply a bully thought for anyone. You don’t privation to person each your players flying back, it’s astir balance. To instrumentality truthful galore bully players retired of the squad precocious successful the portion is simply a spot of a slap successful the look for those who marque the committedness of buying tickets for those games successful advance,” McKenna had told Sydney Morning Herald earlier this month.

The Optus has a Test lucifer attendance grounds of 81,104 crossed a Test during the archetypal Test played astatine the venue betwixt India and Australia successful 2018. The 60,000 capableness stadium had missed hosting a Test lucifer during India’s past circuit successful 2020-2021 arsenic good successful the Ashes against England the pursuing twelvemonth owed to strict authorities measures owed to Covid-19.