{"id":397079,"date":"2026-01-07T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397079\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:22:09","slug":"australia-vs-england-fifth-test-day-4-cricket-scores-results-start-time-wickets-teams-how-to-watch-sydney-test-scg-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397079\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs England fifth Test day 4 cricket scores, results, start time, wickets, teams, how to watch, Sydney Test, SCG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacob Bethell\u2019s outstanding maiden first-class hundred was the glue in an admirable England fightback at the SCG, before a three-wicket haul from Beau Webster underlined the value of spin on a deteriorating surface in the final Ashes Test.<\/p>\n

England avoided the prospect of an innings defeat by compiling 8-302 in their second innings, a lead of 119 runs, thanks largely to a coming-of-age century from 22-year-old Bethell, who became the youngest England batsman to score a Test hundred against Australia at the SCG.<\/p>\n

The only other players to post a Test century at the SCG before turning 23 this century are Salman Butt (2005), KL Rahul (2015), Matt Renshaw (2017) and Rishabh Pant (2019).<\/p>\n

\"Australia<\/p>\n

Australia celebrate after Beau Webster struck to dismiss England captain Ben Stokes.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Australia had earlier been bowled out for 567, with England captain Ben Stokes forced from the field with an adductor injury.<\/p>\n

Webster\u2019s bid to take Cameron Green\u2019s place in the Australian XI received a major boost on Wednesday when he struck 71 not out from No.9 before snaring two wickets in three balls with his underrated off breaks to halt England\u2019s momentum.<\/p>\n

Australia have been heavily criticised for not playing a spinner<\/a> and the sight of Webster\u2019s double-wicket over was evidence that, even for a part-timer, there was enough purchase in the SCG surface to justify the inclusion of a tweaker.<\/p>\n

This was just a taster. Read the full stumps report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Bethell\u2019s outstanding maiden first-class hundred was the glue in an admirable England fightback at the SCG, before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-397079","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\/397079","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=397079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}