{"id":189426,"date":"2025-12-18T04:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189426\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:27:09","slug":"the-ashes-live-australia-v-england-third-test-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189426\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes live: Australia v England &#8211; third test, day two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow all the cricket action, as the third in the five-test Ashes series between archrivals Australia and England enters day two at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Australia currently lead the series 2-0, after victory at both Perth and Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>First ball is scheduled for 12.30pm NZT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JW9C60_GettyImages_2251706930_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 17: Usman Khawaja of Australia plays a sweep shot during day one of the Third Test Match in the 2025\/26 Ashes Series between Australia and England at Adelaide Oval on December 17, 2025 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Santanu Banik\/MB Media\/Getty Images)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nUsman Khawaja bats against England at Adelaide.<br \/>\nPhoto: MB Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow all the cricket action, as the third in the five-test Ashes series between archrivals Australia and England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-189426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}