{"id":218986,"date":"2026-01-06T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218986\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:05:07","slug":"ashes-fifth-test-australia-resume-batting-after-lunch-on-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218986\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes fifth test: Australia resume batting after lunch on day three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>5 Jan, 2026 10:55 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">England\u2019s captain Ben Stokes has a word with Australia\u2019s Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne on day two of the fifth Ashes test. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Travis Head scored 163 to put Australia in a strong position at lunch on day three of the final Ashes test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Head had started the day on 91, and brought up his 150 off just 152 deliveries. He was trapped lbw by Jacob Bethell shortly after lunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Hosts Australia resumed<br \/>\n         the second session at 3-281.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Yesterday, England captain Ben Stokes got the wicket of Marnus Labuschagne (48) after heated exchanges between the pair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier on Monday, Joe Root hit 160 to drive England to 384.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 5 Jan, 2026 10:55 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,5272,85,116173,5972,55893,5904,106,51705,111,139,69,90,8998,2244,22312,213,18835,765,1529,4942],"class_list":["post-218986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-ashes","tag-australia","tag-batting","tag-day","tag-fifth","tag-final","tag-head","tag-lunch","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-position","tag-resume","tag-scored","tag-sports","tag-strong","tag-test","tag-three","tag-travis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218986","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=218986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}