{"id":295490,"date":"2025-11-19T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295490\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:49:08","slug":"england-names-jofra-archer-and-mark-wood-in-squad-for-first-ashes-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295490\/","title":{"rendered":"England names Jofra Archer and Mark Wood in squad for first Ashes Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England has named fast bowlers Jofra Archer and Mark Wood in its 12-player squad for the first men&#8217;s Ashes Test in Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The firebrand quicks are a chance to be unleashed together against Australia for the first time at Test level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England will wait to confirm its final XI, having also picked young spinner Shoaib Bashir in its squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Wood, the only member of the bowlers in England&#8217;s squad to have played a Test in Australia, has overcome the hamstring tightness he sustained in the warm-up match at Lilac Hill last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Returning to bowl in the nets on Tuesday, Wood&#8217;s ability to regularly clock speeds of more than 150 kilometres per hour would come in handy on the fast and bouncy Perth pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Jofra and Woody are amazing bowlers and they&#8217;ll be huge for us this series,&#8221; fellow England fast bowler Gus Atkinson said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-11-19\/glenn-mcgrath-and-abc-sport-part-ways-over-gambling-company-link\/106028682\" 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\">ABC and Test cricket legend part ways over gambling company sponsorship<\/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\">ABC Sport and Australian cricketing legend Glenn McGrath part ways due to the former fast bowler&#8217;s relationship with a betting company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;You hear about it in the past and it&#8217;s all, &#8216;Pace, pace, pace [in Australia]&#8217;, but we&#8217;re hearing lately a bit more seam movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;For me personally, it&#8217;s nice to hear that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">While the make-up of its bowling attack remains undecided, England&#8217;s batting line-up has taken shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Aggressive pair Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley will continue opening together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ollie Pope has been given another chance at number three, despite averaging just 35.36 from his 61 Tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Joe Root will look to break his infamous century drought in Australia, with Harry Brook and captain Ben Stokes to follow to round out England&#8217;s top six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England&#8217;s past three tours to Australia have been monumental failures, going down 5-0, 4-0 and 4-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The tourists have not won a Test match in the country since triumphing 3-1 in the 2010\/11 series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Only Stokes, Root, Wood, Crawley and Pope have previously played a Test in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England squad: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith, Gus Atkinson, Mark Wood, Jofra Archer, Shoaib Bashir, Brydon Carse<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England has named fast bowlers Jofra Archer and Mark Wood in its 12-player squad for the first men&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[13285,64,63,740,9364,88647,33831,46,85],"class_list":["post-295490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ashes","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-first-test","tag-jofra-archer","tag-mark-wood","tag-perth","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295490","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=295490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}