{"id":29400,"date":"2025-07-29T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29400\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:09:08","slug":"australia-claims-series-clean-sweep-with-three-wicket-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29400\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia claims series clean sweep with three-wicket victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And how it has given England a glimpse of what awaits in Australia this Ashes series, writes the London Telegraph\u2019s Nick Hoult in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/ben-stokes-handshake-antics-show-why-everyone-hates-england-20250729-p5miiw.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this piece:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5mi81\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What England did on Sunday night was lame<\/a>, but the theory that Indian teams play for personal milestones is one shared by Australia. In fact, England\u2019s reaction was very Australian. Matthew Hayden once picked up on the \u201cmilestone culture\u201d in Indian cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t really play for stats. We play for wins. That\u2019s the Aussie way,\u201d said Steve Waugh, but it could just as easily have been Stokes. England\u2019s mistake was making it look petty rather than pointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And how it has given England a glimpse of what awaits in Australia this Ashes series, writes the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-29400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29400","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=29400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}