{"id":367873,"date":"2025-12-24T01:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367873\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:56:12","slug":"switch-hit-adelaide-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367873\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Hit: Adelaide to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/england-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England <\/a>conceded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/the-ashes-2025-26-1455609\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Ashes<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/australia-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia <\/a>in record-equalling time, just 11 days of cricket from the start of the series to a 3-0 scoreline. Following on from defeat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/the-ashes-2025-26-1455609\/australia-vs-england-3rd-test-1455613\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Adelaide<\/a>, they have just a four-day turnaround before the fourth Test at the MCG. On the pod, Alan Gardner was joined by Andrew Miller and Alex Malcolm to pick through the fallout, with England men&#8217;s managing director, Rob Key, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/rob-key-to-investigate-whether-england-s-drinking-went-too-far-in-noosa-1516805\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having already faced the press in Melbourne<\/a>. Can England salvage something from the tour? Is Brendon McCullum the man to rebuild? And how much of a freak is Pat Cummins. Happy listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England conceded the Ashes in Australia in record-equalling time, just 11 days of cricket from the start of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-367873","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\/367873","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=367873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}