{"id":328872,"date":"2025-12-05T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:49:09","slug":"the-ashes-live-coverage-of-day-2-of-the-second-test-between-australia-and-england-at-the-gabba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328872\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: Live coverage of Day 2 of the second Test between Australia and England at the Gabba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThere is a big difference between bowling in nets and bowling in matches,\u201d he says on Seven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe know Perth was only a two day game, the workloads of these bowlers weren\u2019t particularly high, and all they have been able to do leading into this game is bowl in nets or bowl to a mitt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cSuch a different scenario when each ball matters and there\u2019s a result in each ball. They just look like they\u2019re short of match awareness, match fitness the sharpness in the brain to be able to bowl six balls in the same spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI\u2019m telling you, there\u2019s movement in this surface. There are cracks, there\u2019s a bit of indifferent bounce. There are things happening bringing up the 50 partnership, that leg bye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe softer this ball goes, 20 overs to 80, when it\u2019s 60 overs, we lean on that being batter-friendly. The first 20 overs are the time you need to make your breakthroughs and 1\/127 is an absolute disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere is a big difference between bowling in nets and bowling in matches,\u201d he says on Seven. \u201cWe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,740,588,85],"class_list":["post-328872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328872","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=328872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}