{"id":332031,"date":"2025-12-07T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332031\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:27:10","slug":"the-ashes-live-coverage-of-day-four-of-second-test-as-australia-close-in-on-victory-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332031\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: Live coverage of day four of Second Test as Australia close in on victory against England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Shortly before play on Day 4, Steve Smith has opened up about the tough call to overlook Nathan Lyon for this Test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI think the way that Neser in particular batted at 8 with the rest of the tail last night, was outstanding, so we certainly wanted a little bit more batting,\u201d Smith told Seven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe thought this wicket and the pink ball, having the opportunity to have five seamers with (Green) as well gave us the opportunity to take 20 wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">And we felt like against this batting line up we have the bowlers in the sheds to take 20 wickets. Extending that batting slightly I think has held us in good stead for the game so far, but we\u2019ve still got to finish it off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7f5f93358833ab9784152a78c332c35cd462c2d7.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Lyon passing drinks to Steve Smith during the Gabba Test.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Nathan Lyon passing drinks to Steve Smith during the Gabba Test. Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortly before play on Day 4, Steve Smith has opened up about the tough call to overlook Nathan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,740,44,588],"class_list":["post-332031","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\/332031","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=332031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}