WACA Ground News

WA Premier Roger Cook has presented WA Cricket with a $5.2 million Lotterywest grant for the WACA Ground Improvement Project, to help it become one of the country's most welcoming all-abilities venues.

The $154.7 million redevelopment of the WACA Ground has been given the green light by the Board of WA Cricket.

The WACA Ground has unveiled its upgraded light towers, featuring coloured LED lighting, making them the most sophisticated lighting package at any Australian stadium.

Demolition of the Prindiville Stand at the iconic WACA Ground is now complete, making way for an all-abilities playground as part of the WACA Ground Improvement Project.

The iconic light towers at the WACA Ground will be upgraded with new coloured LED lights, as part of the venue’s ongoing improvement project.

The redevelopment of the WACA Ground is set to continue next month following the demolition of the venue’s Inverarity Stand in December.

The long-awaited redevelopment of the WACA is underway, starting with the lengthening of the ground, to allow Australian football to be played at the iconic Perth venue once again.

The WACA Ground will be transformed into a 10,000-capacity boutique stadium, with final designs revealed for the $64 million redevelopment.

OPINION | Of all the Test cricket grounds in Australia, the WACA is the most remote of them all and arguably, has some of the greatest stories in its history.

The future vision of the WACA Ground has been announced, with a $75 million plan to transform it into a boutique multi-sport venue.

Major Test matches will be moved to Perth Stadium with the new venue a chance to host the Ashes Test in late 2017.

As Australia claimed back the Ashes on Tuesday, taking a 3-0 series lead over England, the future of the WACA Ground as an international venue was up in the air with the proposed redevelopment scrapped.

Western Australia's home of cricket has possibly been given life beyond the opening of Perth's new stadium at Burswood which is scheduled for completion in 2018.

Perth Glory have made it clear with the new Sage consortium that it means business, but the stadium for season 3 of the A-League remains far from settled, with Subiaco and the WACA putting themselves in the ring to become Perth Glory's home ground.

The WACA Ground will remain cricket's preferred ground for international matches after the game's most senior WA official claimed yesterday a new 60,000-seat sports stadium offered the sport little value.