{"id":299101,"date":"2025-11-21T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299101\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:57:07","slug":"australia-v-england-cricket-day-1-scores-results-wickets-teams-time-schedule-how-to-watch-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299101\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia v England cricket day 1 scores, results, wickets, teams, time, schedule, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it is possible to underrate a tall left-arm fast bowler who can hurl the ball down at 145km\/h, swing it late on his day, and has also learned to wobble it off the seam as is now the popular custom, then Australians have underrated Mitchell Starc.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>He isn\u2019t Captain Fantastic, Pat Cummins. He isn\u2019t \u201cthe Bendemeer bullet\u201d, Josh Hazlewood. He isn\u2019t Glenn McGrath, Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson, Jason Gillespie or even Bruce Reid, another left-armer, whose injuries made him one of Australian cricket\u2019s greatest maybes.<\/p>\n<p>But with startling figures of 7-58, the best of his career, on day one of this Ashes series to round up England for just 172, Starc ensured that there will never again be questions asked of where he rates in the pace bowling pantheon.<\/p>\n<p>This was the performance of a leading man, taking charge of a series with all the poise of a Lillee, a McGrath or a Cummins.<\/p>\n<p>Read Dan Brettig\u2019s full analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5nhf0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it is possible to underrate a tall left-arm fast bowler who can hurl the ball down at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-299101","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\/299101","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=299101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}