{"id":396998,"date":"2026-01-07T07:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396998\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:28:10","slug":"the-ashes-live-cricket-scores-australia-and-england-resume-battle-in-fifth-and-final-test-at-the-scg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396998\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes live cricket scores: Australia and England resume battle in fifth and final Test at the SCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1wqkres-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Cricket: The series may be decided, but plenty of pride will be on the line in the fifth and final Test of The Ashes between Australia and England at the SCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The tourists were able to put what had been a torrid tour where they surrendered the urn inside 11 match days behind them by claiming their first victory on Australian shores in 15 years in a fast-forward Boxing Day Test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Australia\u2019s hopes of a 5-0 whitewash were swept away with the loss, but Steve Smith\u2019s side will be looking to ensure England are sent home with a bitter taste in their mouths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Stay across the latest Ashes action as Australia and England resume their battle in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket: The series may be decided, but plenty of pride will be on the line in the fifth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-396998","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-sport","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396998","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=396998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}