{"id":372426,"date":"2025-12-26T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372426\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:15:10","slug":"australia-vs-england-fourth-test-day-1-cricket-scores-results-start-time-wickets-teams-how-to-watch-boxing-day-test-mcg-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372426\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs England fourth test day 1 cricket scores, results, start time, wickets, teams, how to watch, Boxing Day Test, MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Neser has caught the outside edge of Joe Root\u2019s bat, and he is caught behind for a duck. <\/p>\n<p>The English have lost 4-16 and all of a sudden, the ridiculous notion of Australia batting again does not seem so ridiculous. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Neser celebrates the prized scalp of Joe Root.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4bc3543e37156ee8eff31141c8ba28a26e818a3a.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Neser celebrates the prized scalp of Joe Root.Credit: Justin McManus<\/p>\n<p>Root had faced 15 balls and never looked settled. To his defence, the ball is seaming big time off this green-topped wicket. <\/p>\n<p>The question has to be asked: is this pitch unfair for Test batsmen? With 14 wickets already, it would seem so.<\/p>\n<p>England are now relying on the aggressive Harry Brook and allrounder Ben Stokes to salvage the innings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A dejected Joe Root walks from the MCG pitch after being caught behind for a duck.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d26428fa3605eec2756a54663b68300fae859843.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A dejected Joe Root walks from the MCG pitch after being caught behind for a duck.Credit: Justin McManus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Neser has caught the outside edge of Joe Root\u2019s bat, and he is caught behind for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-372426","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\/372426","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=372426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}