{"id":271181,"date":"2025-11-08T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271181\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:10:11","slug":"nrl-2025-the-ashes-2025-third-test-live-blog-leeds-match-highlights-updates-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271181\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2025, The Ashes 2025, Third Test, live blog, Leeds, match highlights, updates, injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Ashes safely in their keeping the Kangaroos are out to complete a clean sweep when the series concludes in Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>The home team will be out to restore pride in front of another packed house but Kevin Walters&#8217; men are fully focused on a 3-0 triumph in the first Ashes series since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no such thing as a dead rubber when it comes to the age-old rivalry between Australia and England so another fiery opening is assured AMT Headingley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Follow all the action of the third Ashes Test on NRL.com&#8217;s live blog.<\/p>\n<p>The Ashes: England v Kangaroos<\/p>\n<p>Late Mail<\/p>\n<p>England:\u00a0Shaun Wane has confirmed his side for the third and final Test, with two changes to the backline from last week&#8217;s defeat in Liverpool. Joe Burgess comes into the side on the wing to replace Dom Young, who suffered a broken foot, while Harry Newman replaces Jake Wardle in the centres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kangaroos:\u00a0Just the one change for the Kangaroos as they chase a clean sweep this afternoon. Captain Isaah Yeo is back from a concussion suffered in the first Test and will start at lock. Tino Fa&#8217;asuamaleaui shifts to prop, with Lindsay Collins moving to the interchange and Lindsay Smith dropping out of the side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Numbers Game<\/p>\n<p>Ashes Tests 1908-2025 &#8211; Played 119, Australia 61 wins, Great Britain 54 wins, draws 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Ashes safely in their keeping the Kangaroos are out to complete a clean sweep when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-271181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271181","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=271181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}