{"id":189454,"date":"2025-10-10T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189454\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:29:10","slug":"marnus-labuschagne-australia-batter-states-ashes-case-with-third-century-in-four-matches-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189454\/","title":{"rendered":"Marnus Labuschagne: Australia batter states Ashes case with third century in four matches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marnus Labuschagne’s push for a recall to Australia’s Test squad for the Ashes received another boost as he hit his third century in four innings for Queensland.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old top-order batter made 105 off 91 balls in his side’s One-Day Cup defeat by Tasmania,<\/a> just three days after he scored 160 against the same opponents in Australia’s red-ball competition, the Sheffield Shield.<\/p>\n

He also scored 130 off 118 in Queensland’s One-Day Cup opener against Victoria in September.<\/p>\n

Labuschagne, who has compiled 11 centuries in 58 Tests, was dropped from Australia’s Test squad<\/a> for July’s series against West Indies.<\/p>\n

He faces competition from the likes of Travis Head, Sam Konstas and Nathan McSweeney to force his way back into the side, possibly as Usman Khawaja’s opening partner.<\/p>\n

Australia left Labuschagne out of their squad for this month’s one-day international series against India, but called up top-order batter Matthew Renshaw.<\/p>\n

Labuschagne has not scored a Test century since July 2023 – a knock of 111 against England – and is averaging just 24.74 in the format since then, but he attributes his upturn in form to taking his game back to basics.<\/p>\n

“I felt good out there,” Labuschagne said after his Shield century against Tasmania.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I’ve really stripped it back and my focus is just scoring runs. It’s not really too technical – just what I need out there to score runs.”<\/p>\n

The first Ashes Test is scheduled to begin on Friday, 21 November in Perth.<\/p>\n

England have already named their squad for the Ashes<\/a> but the Aussies are not expected to announce their party until closer to the first Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marnus Labuschagne’s push for a recall to Australia’s Test squad for the Ashes received another boost as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-189454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}