{"id":373760,"date":"2025-12-26T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373760\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:23:09","slug":"australia-vs-england-day-2-highlights-results-and-latest-updates-alastair-cook-predicts-another-two-day-match-after-20-wicket-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373760\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs England; Day 2 highlights, results and latest updates; Alastair Cook predicts another two-day match after 20-wicket chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England great Alastair Cook has admitted another two-day Test could be on the cards unless something dramatic changes overnight at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>After 20 wickets fell on Boxing Day in pure chaos, Australia now find themselves 46 runs ahead with all of their second innings wickets in hand.<\/p>\n<p>It places England in a precarious position unless they can strike early and Cook has doubts as to whether the game will go into a third day due to the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope it doesn&#8217;t quicken up and nip more, because I think it will be a two-day game,&#8221; the former Test skipper told TNT Sports. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I actually can&#8217;t see it going much longer if it&#8217;s like that. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it flattens out a little bit, then we&#8217;ve got a game on our hands. The only other thing is Australia would have had two heavy rollers on the pitch, whether that has an impact. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Australia will be thinking &#8216;if we bat the majority of the day tomorrow, we will bat England out of the game&#8217; \u2026 so England have to strike early.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England great Alastair Cook has admitted another two-day Test could be on the cards unless something dramatic changes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-373760","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\/373760","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=373760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}