Tasmania's audacious bid to steal Ashes Test

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The Tasmanian authorities has launched an audacious bid to swipe the last Ashes Test from Perth.

Premier Peter Gutwein confirmed successful parliament contiguous that Tasmania had written to Cricket Australia and formally requested that the Fifth Test beryllium relocated, expanding unit connected Western Australia to support clasp of the event.

"The crippled is presently scheduled to commence connected 14 January successful WA, but they person made it wide their borders volition not beryllium unfastened by then," helium said.

"The Tasmanian Government is committed to delivering much elite sporting contented for locals to bask that volition boost our system and enactment Tasmania beforehand and centre connected the nationalist sporting stage," helium said.

"There is nary uncertainty an Ashes trial lucifer betwixt Australia and the aged force England astatine Blundstone Arena would beryllium 1 of the biggest sporting events we person ever hosted and a monolithic boon for our State – perchance being the lucifer that decides the 2021-22 Ashes."

Gutwein besides said the lucifer could beryllium a brilliantly accidental to farewell Tim Paine, the existent Test skipper and longtime Tasmanian authorities representative.

"It would beryllium fantastic to spot Tim play astatine Bellerive arsenic Captain of Australia for the first, and perchance lone time, and we volition proceed to enactment with Cricket Australia successful the coming weeks to bring this to reality," helium said.

"Tasmania has already shown connected aggregate occasions this twelvemonth that we tin successfully big elite sporting content."

Due to COVID restrictions successful different states, the University of Tasmania Stadium successful Launceston hosted 2 AFL finals games successful 2021 including the derby betwixt the Sydney Swans and GWS Giants - and the authorities is successful the midst of being 1 of the cardinal hubs of the WBBL.

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