{"id":850246,"date":"2026-08-10T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:34:09","slug":"head-wants-australia-focussed-as-wtc-campaign-resumes-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850246\/","title":{"rendered":"Head wants Australia focussed as WTC campaign resumes | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Series Schedule:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/matches\/270225\/australia-vs-bangladesh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First Test:<\/a> August 13-17, Marrara Cricket Ground, Darwin<\/p>\n<p>Second Test: August 22-26, Great Barrier Reef Arena, Mackay<\/p>\n<p>Squad:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/skipper-returns-as-australia-name-test-squad-for-bangladesh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia squad<\/a>: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Jake Weatherald, Beau Webster<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/litton-included-in-bangladesh-squad-for-wtc-series-opener\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bangladesh squad (first Test)<\/a>: Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Mehidy Hasan Miraz (vc), Soumya Sarkar, Shadman Islam, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Litton Das, Amite Hasan, Jaker Ali, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Syed Khaled Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain Chowdhury, Musfik Hasan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Series Schedule: First Test: August 13-17, Marrara Cricket Ground, Darwin Second Test: August 22-26, Great Barrier Reef Arena,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-850246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850246","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=850246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}