{"id":368291,"date":"2025-12-24T06:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368291\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:21:07","slug":"two-changes-as-england-name-team-for-boxing-day-ashes-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368291\/","title":{"rendered":"Two changes as England name team for Boxing Day Ashes Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

England have put forward their XI for the fourth Ashes Test<\/a> against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, beginning on December 26.<\/p>\n

Down 3-0 in the five-match series, the tourists have made two changes to the side that lost the third Test in Adelaide by 82 runs, on the quest for 12 World Test Championship 2027<\/a> points.<\/p>\n

Left-handed batting all-rounder Jacob Bethell comes into the side and is listed at No.3, while fast bowler Gus Atkinson returns after missing the last outing.<\/p>\n

Atkinson comes in for Jofra Archer who has been ruled out for the remainder of the series with a left side strain, with batter Ollie Pope also left out of the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have put forward their XI for the fourth Ashes Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-368291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368291","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=368291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}