Celebrate world cricket's dream field

Too much bounce, too much grass, too much movement.

Too much whingeing.

There is no doubt the WACA would have wanted at least two more sessions of play from the third Test between Australia and India. So, too, the local fans.

But, unlike some critics, mostly from the east, don't blame our favourite piece of turf. Point the finger at the players because Perth's premier pitch can make a strong claim to providing some of the most exciting cricket on the planet.

Sure some batsmen are made to look like schoolboy pretenders on the Waroona clay that sits in the middle of the WACA Ground.

Yet for every Virender Sehwag, there is a David Warner. If the wicket is a problem why can one player construct a 180-run innings and share in a 214-run opening stand?

It is worth noting that four of the seven fastest Test centuries have been recorded at the WACA Ground. It is also the home of the highest score ever compiled in five-day cricket in this land - Matthew Hayden's 380.

And not so long ago South Africa countered those much-vaunted pitch demons to make 4-414 in the then second-highest Test run chase.

But then Mitchell Johnson and Glenn McGrath have also left Perth with eight wickets in a Test innings at the WA arena. India was dismissed for 161 and 171 in the recently-completed third Test.

So there is something for everyone at the WACA Ground.

And that is why Perth is lucky to have one of the best international cricket venues in the world