{"id":355568,"date":"2025-12-18T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355568\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:02:08","slug":"australia-v-england-cricket-scores-results-start-time-wickets-teams-how-to-watch-adelaide-oval-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355568\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia v England cricket scores, results, start time, wickets, teams, how to watch, Adelaide Oval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came into play today thinking England were right in the game, based on the batting-friendly pitch, the heat and how poorly Australia batted on the first day.<\/p>\n<p>Surely, England would improve here with more favourable conditions. They haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Australians have been cynical about Bazball, but what today has shown is that England are just not that good.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been more circumspect with the bat today on the pitch that has offered the least assistance to the bowlers \u2013 and it has not helped.<\/p>\n<p>I thought Australia\u2019s 371 was sub-par, so a scoreline of 6-168 in the final session is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>They haven\u2019t lost a flurry of wickets to extravagant drives on the up, but their failure to execute the basics has exposed the widening gap between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stokes is in for the grind, taking 108 balls for his 31, but the scoreboard\u2019s not moving.<\/p>\n<p>Australia have lured England into a cage fight. They love this attritional cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I came into play today thinking England were right in the game, based on the batting-friendly pitch, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-355568","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\/355568","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=355568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}