Australian pace spearhead Mitchell Starc said that the players would have liked the 2025-26 Ashes series to begin in Brisbane over Perth. The 35-year-old also said that he missed playing at the old WACA ground, where bowlers got help from the Fremantle Doctor breeze blowing across the ground.

Starc said that the wind at the Perth Stadium did not blow from one direction and admitted that there had been five different pitches at the venue so far.

“We’ll find out in a week, won’t we? They don’t listen to the players; we would have liked to start in Brisbane, too. I miss the WACA. The Fremantle Doctor (the cooling afternoon breeze) comes in. It’s swirly wind here, not one direction. You can have three directions each over.”

“We’ve had five different wickets here in a sense – we’ve had a pr

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