The WACA Ground in East Perth is one of Australia's historic cricket venues, home to Western Australian cricket since the 1890s. International Test matches are still occasionally played here, though Perth's big fixtures have largely shifted to the new Optus Stadium since 2018. The WACA remains an active venue for domestic cricket and the occasional international match, and if you have any interest in cricket history it is worth coming to see it. The ground has that battered, working character of a genuinely used sporting venue rather than the corporate polish of the newer stadium.
Tours of the WACA are available and include the hallowed turf, the dressing rooms, and the ground's small museum covering WA cricket history. The venue is an easy walk from the CBD — about 20 minutes on foot east along Wellington Street — and if there is a match on, the WACA still delivers the kind of unhurried, community cricket atmosphere that the big stadiums tend to flatten. Perth's international cricket now takes place at Optus Stadium in Burswood, a spectacular venue across the river, but the WACA retains a loyalty from cricket traditionalists who prefer their grounds to have history rather than naming-rights sponsors.