{"id":387003,"date":"2026-01-02T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387003\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:25:07","slug":"england-and-wales-cricket-board-ecb-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387003\/","title":{"rendered":"England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">Spinner Shoaib Bashir and seamer Matthew Potts both make the list<\/p>\n<p>England Men have named a 12-strong squad for the fifth Ashes Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground, starting on Sunday 4 January.<\/p>\n<p>Spinner Shoaib Bashir and seamer Matthew Potts are included. From the side that defeated Australia in the fourth Test in Melbourne, Gus Atkinson is the only player missing, having been ruled out with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>England squad for the fifth Ashes Test:<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stokes (Captain)<br \/>Shoaib Bashir<br \/>Jacob Bethell<br \/>Harry Brook<br \/>Brydon Carse<br \/>Zak Crawley<br \/>Ben Duckett<br \/>Will Jacks<br \/>Matthew Potts<br \/>Joe Root<br \/>Jamie Smith (WK)<br \/>Josh Tongue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spinner Shoaib Bashir and seamer Matthew Potts both make the list England Men have named a 12-strong squad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-387003","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","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387003","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=387003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}