{"id":362078,"date":"2025-12-21T07:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362078\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:21:20","slug":"australia-bowlers-best-ive-played-against-crawley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362078\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia bowlers best I&#8217;ve played against &#8211; Crawley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England opener Zak Crawley says Australia&#8217;s bowling attack is the best he has played against in his 62-Test career.<\/p>\n<p>Crawley hit 85 in England&#8217;s second innings in the third Test but it does not look like being enough to prevent the tourists losing the Ashes at the earliest opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Key to Australia&#8217;s success in the third Test in Adelaide in particular has been the relentless skill of their bowlers: seamers Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland and Cameron Green, plus spinner Nathan Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re phenomenal, they&#8217;re the best bowling attack I&#8217;ve played against for sure, especially in these conditions when it was spinning like that for Lyon,&#8221; Crawley told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t give you anything, they make the ball move. We knew we had to be at our best and unfortunately we were just short of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fairness to them they&#8217;ve been phenomenal in the last three games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766301680_307_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England opener Zak Crawley says Australia&#8217;s bowling attack is the best he has played against in his 62-Test&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,18762,740,31024,29547,1948,1934,85,20339],"class_list":{"0":"post-362078","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-cameron-green","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-mitchell-starc","13":"tag-nathan-lyon","14":"tag-pat-cummins","15":"tag-scott-boland","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-zak-crawley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362078","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=362078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}