{"id":23427,"date":"2025-07-26T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23427\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T11:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:11:05","slug":"second-test-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne-scores-results-fixtures-teams-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23427\/","title":{"rendered":"second Test from the MCG in Melbourne, scores, results, fixtures, teams, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large rain band moving across Australia brought soggy conditions across large parts of the country, stretching from much of central Queensland to Tasmania and over to coastal areas of South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The stormy weather in Brisbane even led to lightning causing play to be suspended in a women\u2019s rugby Test between the Wallaroos and Wales, which the tourists eventually went on to win 21-12.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tabua Tuinakauvadra of the Wallaroos is tackled during the match between Australian Wallaroos and Wales Women.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/e1ea0c75415d7278801d22a3abdb26d9769ebb46.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tabua Tuinakauvadra of the Wallaroos is tackled during the match between Australian Wallaroos and Wales Women.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The sunshine state copped an \u201cunseasonable\u201d amount of rain including in the central highlands, where 45 millimetres was recorded in the 24 hours to Saturday morning, Bureau of Meteorology Senior meteorologist Angus Hines said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5mi01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large rain band moving across Australia brought soggy conditions across large parts of the country, stretching from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-23427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}