{"id":298305,"date":"2025-11-21T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298305\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:46:12","slug":"the-ashes-live-understrength-australia-look-to-dent-england-optimism-in-historic-perth-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298305\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes live: Understrength Australia look to dent England optimism in historic Perth Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He will be one of two debutants along with Jake Weatherald, who was given his cap by David Warner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Stuart Broad had praise for the South Australian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cTall, fast. He\u2019s obviously got experience being 31, he\u2019s bowled a lot of deliveries. Of course he is going to be nervous over the next couple of days, but he is settling into a pretty experienced group,\u201d he told Seven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cHe is tall, hits the pitch really hard, bowls back of a length and can swing the ball back to left-hander. If he can bowl balls like that, he will be pretty happy with himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThis is England\u2019s opportunity to try and put some pressure on some slightly less experience and the amount of Test Matches in the bowling group &#8211; yes, you have Mitch Starc, Nathan Lyon, that Australia will lean on, but Boland and Doggett, England might just target them a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/34d32e557b209f65c5e7ed6522d9f7c706964ceb.jpg\" alt=\"PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 19: Brendan Doggett poses following an Australia nets session at Perth Stadium on November 19, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane\/Getty Images)\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PERTH, AUSTRALIA &#8211; NOVEMBER 19: Brendan Doggett poses following an Australia nets session at Perth Stadium on November 19, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane\/Getty Images) Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He will be one of two debutants along with Jake Weatherald, who was given his cap by David&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,740,44,588],"class_list":["post-298305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298305","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=298305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}