{"id":257352,"date":"2025-11-02T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257352\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:15:10","slug":"wheelchair-rugby-league-ashes-england-beat-australia-to-win-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257352\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair Rugby League Ashes: England beat Australia to win series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Diab Karim opened the scoring for Australia with a try after two minutes of the second Test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two tries from England&#8217;s Rob Hawkins, who scored a hat-trick in the opening Test, and one from Finlay O&#8217;Neill were cancelled out by two Bayley McKenna scores, and Adam Tannock and Dan Anstey tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Brown instigated England&#8217;s fightback in the second half, scoring twice and setting up two tries for captain Lewis King, who ended with a hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tries from Zac Schumacher and Anstey brought Australia level at 42-42 before England substitute Mason Billington&#8217;s cool final pass sent Coyd over for the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia host the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England and France have dominated the tournament since its inception in 2008, but the &#8216;Wheelaroos&#8217; showed their development in this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diab Karim opened the scoring for Australia with a try after two minutes of the second Test. Two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-257352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257352","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=257352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}