The most recent Ashes series ended tied at 2-2 in the middle of 2023 and Langer is concerned whether England lack the killer punch to put away the Aussies when the opportunity arises.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to be a really, really close series,” Langer predicted.<\/p>\n
“My question for England will be, have you got the killer instinct to finish off a series if you get a chance?<\/p>\n
“We’ve seen it, the two-all here in the last Ashes series, two-all against India.<\/p>\n
“England had the chances to win that series. Have you got the killer instinct to win the Ashes in Australia? That’s going to be the big question.”<\/p>\n
Series schedule:<\/p>\n
First Test: Perth Stadium, November 21-25
Second Test: Gabba, December 4-8
Third Test: Adelaide Oval, December 17-21
Fourth Test: MCG, December 26-30
Fifth Test: SCG, January 4-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most recent Ashes series ended tied at 2-2 in the middle of 2023 and Langer is concerned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[46337,12827,5101,64,63,740,5103,12826,72345,44,85,33383],"class_list":["post-98968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-2025-26","tag-2025-27","tag-app-stream","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-icc-world-test-championship","tag-justin-langer-11-21-1970","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-the-ashes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98968","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=98968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}