The chief of Western Australia (WA) Cricket has conceded that her organisation could lose up to $5 million after the city of Perth was stripped of the popular fifth Ashes cricket test scheduled to start on Jan. 14. The decision came on Dec. 6 after the sport’s governing body found WA’s quarantine requirements too onerous to navigate. Christina Matthews, CEO of WA Cricket, said the state’s cricketing body would be asking for compensation from Cricket Australia. “We’re talking (a loss of) between three to five million dollars, which is all our members’ fees,” Matthews said in comments obtained by AAP. “We still get our grant from Cricket Australia for international cricket, but our business model is based on members. “If there’s a financial advantage in allocating that fifth Test to a particular state, we expect to receive some of that financial advantage to compensate for what we’ve lost. “I’d hope …