{"id":369835,"date":"2025-12-24T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369835\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:55:12","slug":"the-ashes-jhye-richardson-returns-for-boxing-day-test-but-australia-drop-josh-inglis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369835\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: Jhye Richardson returns for Boxing Day Test, but Australia drop Josh Inglis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Jhye Richardson is poised to play his first Test match in four years, picked in a 12-man Australian squad for Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Test career of Usman Khawaja also lives on, with selectors dropping West Australian Josh Inglis in a series of sweeping changes, despite holding an unassailable 3-0 lead in the Ashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Australia will pick four frontline quicks and will snub a spinner, leaving Todd Murphy on the sidelines after Nathan Lyon was ruled out for the series with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Michael Neser, Brendan Doggett and Richardson have all joined Steve Smith as inclusions in the squad that won in Adelaide last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">They will pick two from that fast-bowling trio to partner Scott Boland and Mitchell Starc on a wicket stand-in captain Smith described as \u201cfurry\u201d with 10mm of grass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Under-pressure all-rounder Cam Green will move to No.7 after batting at No.5 in Adelaide and that spot will be taken by Khawaja, who made 82 and 40 at Adelaide Oval to revive his Test career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jhye Richardson is poised to play his first Test match in four years, picked in a 12-man Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,740,588,85],"class_list":["post-369835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369835","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=369835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}