The WACA will stage its final Ashes Test from Thursday - one which England must not lose if they are to remain in with a chance of retaining the urn.
Ahead of the game, Sky Sports Cricket experts Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton and Bob Willis reveal some anecdotes of the famous Perth ground, where England have lost seven on the bounce and won just once...
ATHERS: There may not be as much pace and bounce at Perth as there used to be but by general standards it is still a quick pitch. If you're a good back-foot player or a good touch player, you should get lots of runs. On my first tour in 1990/91 we played our opening tour game at Perth and I was standing in the slip cordon to Devon Malcolm (below); I remember that we were standing about three-quarters of the way back to the boundary.
Mike Valetta and Graeme Wood played Devon superbly and it was a good illustration of how Australian opening batsmen are conditioned to quick bowlers because they just left everything and the ball kept bouncing over the top of the stumps. No young English batsman brought up on English pitches played that well. It was a good learning curve for me as a young opening batsman about how to go about playing fast bowlers in Australia.
NASSER: It was pretty fearsome watching Mitchell Johnson in the last Ashes series in Australia - that was serious left-arm pace - but, back in 2002/2003 in Perth, Brett Lee bowled one of the quickest spells of bowling I've seen in the Test arena. The famous Fremantle Doctor was blowing straight down the ground and Lee needed no further encouragement on a quick pitch to crank up his pace.
We had to send a nightwatchman in towards the end of the second day and I remember pushing Richard Dawson, who looked like he'd seen a ghost, out of the door! The, the following day, Lee felled Alex Tudor with one that cannoned into his nut. He was pretty badly shaken up by it and I remember Lee (below) saying the blood on the pitch freaked him out.
We usually started our tour here and I remember that Mark Butcher got carried off in one of the games after getting smashed by a lad called Matt Nicholson, who went on to play for Australia. He bowled a real sharp spell at Butch and when I went out to bat at No 3 there was blood on the crease where Butch had been whacked just under the grille.
BOB: Talking of unpleasant episodes...
I remember one particularly bad one during the 1982/83 series when Terry Alderman was injured during a pitch invasion. Back in those days idiots seemed to run onto the pitch for all manner of reasons. This time one of them grabbed Alderman's Baggy Green and made off with it and even though Terry was one of the nicest guys you could wish to meet, there was no way he was going to stand for that! Anyway, he gave chase and rugby tackled the guy but unfortunately dislocated his shoulder in the process.
That came a few years after the circus surrounding Dennis Lillee's aluminium bat. The umpires decided it wasn't within the rules of the game and duly stopped him from using it which, of course, was like a red rag to a bull. Dennis lost it and threw the offending item in the direction of our captain Mike Brearley, who at that point of his career was sporting a ridiculous beard. It was all quite absurd.