{"id":331056,"date":"2025-12-06T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331056\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T10:53:11","slug":"the-ashes-2025-pat-cummins-good-to-go-for-australia-in-third-test-against-england-at-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331056\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025: Pat Cummins &#8216;good to go&#8217; for Australia in third Test against England at Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cummins has taken 309 wickets in 71 Tests and has a career average of 21.19 with the ball at the Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia are also without fast bowler Josh Hazlewood, while Steve Smith has captained the side in Cummins&#8217; absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cummins said the selectors considered bringing him in for Brisbane but decided it was too risky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It felt a bit too acute and didn&#8217;t really feel fair on the other bowlers,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We thought it didn&#8217;t feel like the right Test match to take that risk, so kick it down the road for a week.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cummins has taken 309 wickets in 71 Tests and has a career average of 21.19 with the ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-331056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331056","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=331056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}