Roy Abbott retires

In 1980 Roy Abbott retired as ground curator of the WACA Ground. Appointed Head Curator in 1951, Roy Abbott was instrumental in transforming the WACA Ground and pitches for international cricket and his most enduring achievement will always be the bouncy, fast WACA pitches, regarded throughout the cricket world as on of the true tests of a cricketer's skill. Roy was inducted in the WACA Cricket Gallery of Greats in 2013.