{"id":327225,"date":"2025-12-04T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327225\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:26:15","slug":"the-ashes-live-coverage-of-day-1-of-the-second-test-between-australia-and-england-at-the-gabba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327225\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: Live coverage of Day 1 of the second Test between Australia and England at the Gabba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">At last, the second-leading run-scorer in the history of Test cricket has a hundred in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Joe Root has worked Scott Boland down to the fine leg boundary to bring up his century, which is just reward for a superb knock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The milestone has come when his side desperately needed it, having come to the crease when England found themselves at 2-5 within the first three overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Root had notched nine half-centuries across his four tours of the country but had never gone on to a hundred until tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The century is his 40th in Test cricket and fifth in Ashes cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u200b<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u200b<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">ENG 7-256<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At last, the second-leading run-scorer in the history of Test cricket has a hundred in Australia. Joe Root&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,588,85],"class_list":["post-327225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327225","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=327225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}