{"id":296634,"date":"2025-11-20T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296634\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:13:14","slug":"west-australian-wicketkeeper-josh-inglis-added-to-cricket-australias-xi-squad-to-face-english-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296634\/","title":{"rendered":"West Australian wicketkeeper Josh Inglis added to Cricket Australia\u2019s XI squad to face English Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">WA and Ashes reserve wicketkeeper Josh Inglis has been added to the Cricket Australia XI to face the England Lions, with Australia\u2019s batting reserves on high alert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Inglis was named in the Ashes squad primarily to cover any injury to Alex Carey, but his ability to bat anywhere inside the top\/middle order could see him thrust into the Ashes spotlight should Australia\u2019s experimental top order fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Jake Weatherald will make his debut in Perth, while Marnus Labuschagne is back at No.3 after being dropped, and Usman Khawaja\u2019s spot could also be up for grabs later in the tour should he start poorly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The West Australian understands Inglis will bat in the top order for the clash as Australia is keen to assess the depth of their batting reserves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The match will also see the comeback of Jhye Richardson, who is hoping to push his own Ashes case as he works his way back from his latest shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">It comes as Mitch Marsh is set to make a surprise return to shield cricket on December 4, having not played a first-class match since being dropped after the Boxing Day Test last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">All eyes will be to see where Marsh bats in the order after various calls for him to open in Test cricket on the back of scintilating white ball form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WA and Ashes reserve wicketkeeper Josh Inglis has been added to the Cricket Australia XI to face the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,56117,740,588,85,33383],"class_list":["post-296634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-cricket-team","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-the-ashes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296634","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=296634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}