{"id":342917,"date":"2025-12-12T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342917\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:20:10","slug":"the-ashes-aaron-finch-says-its-hard-to-see-how-england-bowl-australia-out-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342917\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: Aaron Finch says it’s hard to see how England bowl Australia out twice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Australia white-ball captain Aaron Finch expects England to win a Test but says it is “hard to see” how they can bowl Australia out twice on a regular basis to win the series. <\/p>\n

England are 2-0 down after successive eight-wicket defeats and need to win the remaining three games to regain the Ashes. <\/p>\n

There are questions over the personnel in their side for the third Test which starts on Wednesday (23:30 GMT, Tuesday) but they are definitely without pace bowler Mark Wood, who has been ruled out of the series with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Australia, however, are set to welcome back captain Pat Cummins from a back injury, while spinner Nathan Lyon is set to be included after being left out of the day-night Test. <\/p>\n

“It’s hard to see how England can bowl Australia out a couple of times,” said Finch on BBC Sounds’ No Balls: The Cricket Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Marnus Labuschagne looks in really good touch, Steve Smith has got the bit between the teeth at the moment and [Jake] Weatherald’s starting to shape up really nicely. <\/p>\n

“I’m going to go 4-1 [as the final result]. The way that England play, when they get it right, they win. <\/p>\n

“If Harry Brook gets it right for two sessions that buys you so much time at the back end of the game to bowl teams out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australia white-ball captain Aaron Finch expects England to win a Test but says it is “hard to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-342917","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\/342917","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=342917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}