{"id":284853,"date":"2025-11-14T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284853\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:26:09","slug":"england-great-james-anderson-tips-australian-ashes-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284853\/","title":{"rendered":"England great James Anderson tips Australian Ashes win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Legendary England fast bowler James Anderson says Australia is favourite to win the men&#8217;s Ashes series on home soil, but feels the hosts will field their &#8220;weakest&#8221; team in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The first Ashes Test begins on Friday in Perth, with Australia missing inspirational captain Pat Cummins because of injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">There is much debate surrounding the make-up of Australia&#8217;s batting line-up, with opener Jake Weatherald potentially in line to make his Test debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England has not won an Ashes series in Australia since 2010\/11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anderson said Australia was vulnerable, but he believed it would still win this summer&#8217;s series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Australia has been so strong and so consistent in their team selection over the last 10 years, that this probably is their weakest team [in the past 15 years],&#8221; Anderson told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-11-14\/england-hits-out-in-perth-as-joe-root-misses-out\/106012126\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Root&#8217;s ominous opening innings as England Bazballs in Perth<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">England star Joe Root is yet to score a Test century in Australia and was out for one run despite the team&#8217;s strong platform in the warm-up match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;There are doubts around who&#8217;s going to bat in the top three. Pat Cummins missing is huge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;There are question marks there, and definitely there are cracks that England could potentially expose. There&#8217;s a great chance for England to get on top early.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;But I don&#8217;t think England are quite favourites. I&#8217;d say Australia are still favourites, in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;There&#8217;s still a lot of quality in their batting line-up, there&#8217;s still a lot of quality with their bowlers as well, even if Cummins is missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a tough one to call, so I&#8217;d say Australia, just.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anderson was a member of the triumphant England squad in the 2010\/11 series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He played in five Ashes series in Australia across his decorated 188-Test career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP\/ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary England fast bowler James Anderson says Australia is favourite to win the men&#8217;s Ashes series on home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13285,64,63,740,1208,160455,1948,46,85,230,164564],"class_list":{"0":"post-284853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ashes","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-james-anderson","14":"tag-pat-cummins","15":"tag-perth","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tests","18":"tag-urn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284853","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=284853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}