{"id":53122,"date":"2025-08-08T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53122\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:49:09","slug":"cricket-news-2025-the-ashes-glenn-mcgrath-prediction-australia-vs-england-harry-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53122\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket news 2025 | The Ashes; Glenn McGrath prediction; Australia vs England; Harry Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian cricketing legend Glenn McGrath<\/a> has stuck true to form, making his usual Ashes prediction. <\/p>\n

“It’s very rare for me to make a prediction, isn’t it? And I can’t make a different one, 5-0,” McGrath told BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n

Since retiring, McGrath hasn’t made any other prediction, and in 2013-14, he was proved right.<\/p>\n

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His final series was in 2006-07 when Australia embarrassed England with a clean sweep.<\/p>\n

\"Glenn<\/p>\n

Glenn McGrath of Australia celebrates taking the wicket of Paul Collingwood of England.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I’m very confident with our team. When you’ve got Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon firing in their home conditions, it’s going to be pretty tough,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Plus, that track record England have had, it’d be interesting to see if they can win a Test.”<\/p>\n

During the interview, McGrath ran his eye over England’s batters, nominating it a “big” series for Joe Root as he searches for a maiden ton in Australia.<\/p>\n

But the one player he’s looking forward to watching the most is Harry Brook. <\/p>\n

“He just goes out there, plays his game, and takes it on. The Australians will need to get on him pretty early,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Ben Duckett is such an aggressive opener. Zak Crawley would be keen to score a few more runs than he has previously.<\/p>\n

“It’s the top order or top and middle order of England against the Australian fast bowlers and Lyon. That’s going to be a big match-up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian cricketing legend Glenn McGrath has stuck true to form, making his usual Ashes prediction. “It’s very rare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-53122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53122","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=53122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}