{"id":389894,"date":"2026-01-03T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389894\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:20:07","slug":"live-blog-australia-pick-all-pace-attack-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389894\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE BLOG: Australia pick all-pace attack again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow all the action from the fifth NRMA Insurance Men’s Ashes Test at the SCG<\/p>\n

Full scorecard and wicket replays here<\/a><\/p>\n

Fifth Test session times<\/p>\n

First: 10:30am \u2013 12:30pm (11:30pm \u2013 1:30am GMT)<\/p>\n

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Second: 1:10pm \u2013 3:10pm (2:10am \u2013 4:10am GMT)<\/p>\n

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Third: 3:30pm \u2013 5:30pm (4:30am \u2013 6:30am GMT)<\/p>\n

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*An extra 30 minutes is available to complete daily overs<\/p>\n

2025-26 NRMA Insurance Men’s Ashes<\/p>\n

First Test: Australia won by eight wickets<\/a><\/p>\n

Second Test: Australia won by eight wickets<\/a><\/p>\n

Third Test: Australia won by 82 runs<\/a><\/p>\n

Fourth Test: England won by four wickets<\/a><\/p>\n

Fifth Test: January 4-8: SCG, Sydney, 10:30am AEDT<\/a><\/p>\n

Australia squad (fifth Test): Steve Smith (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Brendan Doggett, Cameron Green, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Todd Murphy, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Mitchell Starc, Jake Weatherald, Beau Webster<\/p>\n

England squad: Ben Stokes (c), Harry Brook (vc), Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Matthew Fisher, Will Jacks, Ollie Pope, Matthew Potts, Joe Root, Jamie Smith (wk), Josh Tongue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow all the action from the fifth NRMA Insurance Men’s Ashes Test at the SCG Full scorecard and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-389894","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\/389894","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=389894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}