Play due to start shortly amid row over Test-threatening damp pitch

By Chris Barrett
Updated December 18 2017 - 4:43pm, first published 4:38pm

Controversy hit the WACA on Monday after water leaked under the covers overnight and rendered the pitch "unacceptable", delaying the start of play on the fifth day of the third Ashes Test.

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