The West Test: Fans on track for record crowd for Test match in WA after 63,670 attend first two days
The West Test may not appear to be heading Australia’s way, but a second day of strong crowds has the match on track to secure a WA attendance record.
32,368 were on hand to watch India’s domination at Perth Stadium on day two, shading the 31,302 from Friday that had set a new single-day Test mark in the west.
It means 39,771 more fans are needed across the remainder of the match to pass the record of 103,440 for a full Test fixture, set at the WACA Ground in the 2006-07 Ashes series.
Perth Stadium’s bid to register a new mark was boosted by a sudden flipping of the script in the battle between bat and ball on Saturday.
After a whopping 17 wickets fell on day one, the most in any opening day in a Test in Australia since 1952, India’s opening batters put on a clinic on Saturday afternoon as the pitch settled down.
It means a match that was looking a three-day prospect at best is now likely to stretch into a fourth day on Monday, bolstering the prospect of a six-figure cumulative total.
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