WACA boss Christina Matthews has pinpointed securing a day-night Test match in Perth next year as a priority — but will have to convince Cricket Australia chiefs that a three-hour time difference with Eastern States can be overcome.

After talk of a WA bid for the Boxing Day Test reached fever pitch ahead of the first Test match at Perth Stadium, Ms Matthews yesterday firmly turned her attention to a twilight Test in the west next summer.

But comments from Cricket Australia bosses at the weekend, including new CA chairman Earl Eddings, suggest the WACA faces a major hurdle — daylight saving.

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The West Australian understands Mr Eddings told people at a cricket function that Perth would be strongly considered for a day-night Test next year but the three-hour delay would make scheduling tricky.

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A CA spokesman confirmed yesterday that the “time difference presents a challenge”.

“But we wouldn’t rule anything out at this stage, and are very happy to work through it,” he said.

That is something Ms Matthews is very keen to do.

“I am much more interested in a day-night Test here, to lead into Boxing Day and New Year’s Day — I think that is really good for us, and I would like to see us get something more cemented in the calendar,” Ms Matthews told Melbourne radio station SEN.

“There is no reason why it can’t work (with the time difference). We have day-night one-day cricket, it is just different hours for what it would be on the east coast.

“I think the important thing is to look at what all the positives and negatives are and make a real decision about it, and not just assume.”

If Perth were chosen, the first Test of next summer’s three-match series against New Zealand would be the likely fixture.

And in a semi-serious dig at Melbourne, Ms Matthews said it was clear Perth and Adelaide now had the best cricket venues in the country.

“So why not make the most of those from a commercial point of view — see if we can bring the others up to scratch,” Ms Matthews said.

“The MCG is obviously iconic, but it is only iconic for its size.”

The WACA chief executive may not have made many friends at CA headquarters when she blamed poor ticket sales for the inaugural Perth Stadium Test on the organisation’s handling of the ball-tampering scandal.

Just 20,746 spectators attended on Friday and 19,042 on Saturday — well down on the 35,000 opening-day crowd the WACA had initially hoped to attract.

Ms Matthews, who applied unsuccessfully to replace James Sutherland in CA’s top job, says cricket’s governing body should have foreseen the fallout from the ball-tampering scandal and the subsequent cultural reviews.

“I think Australian cricket as an entity is on the nose and a little bit of trust has been lost,” Ms Matthews said.

“Certain things happen ... and you’ve got to work a lot harder than you might have had to to get them all back.

“What happened in South Africa was kind of an insult to everybody and how they feel about the game.

“We follow that up a few months later with the culture review and, let’s say, the lack of foresight on Cricket Australia’s part to see how the public were going to react to that. You kind of live and learn.”

Ms Matthews said she had not been surprised by the damning findings of the independent review that led to several key figures at CA falling on their swords.

“You always know when things are not going well, particularly when you work in it day to day,” she said.

“It probably surprised me that others were so surprised.

“It was obvious from a team perspective that the team’s culture had been waning.

“There’s evidence now to suggest that, in terms of surveys that have been done and haven’t probably seen the light of day.

“We’ve had a lot of change ... James (Sutherland) being around for 17 years, that’s a really difficult thing to pull off, being in the one job for 17 years and nothing really changing.”

With AAP

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