{"id":192877,"date":"2025-10-11T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192877\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:35:06","slug":"the-ashes-england-have-great-chance-to-win-in-australia-says-woakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192877\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: England ‘have great chance’ to win in Australia says Woakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former England bowler Chris Woakes says Ben Stokes’ side “have a hell of a chance” of winning the Ashes in Australia for the first time since 2010-11 this winter.<\/p>\n

Woakes retired from international cricket<\/a> last month after a shoulder injury sustained in his 62nd and final Test against India this summer ruled him out of the tour.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old was part of two Ashes tours in which England failed to win a Test but is confident of a better showing this winter.<\/p>\n

He told BBC Radio 5 Live: “Going to Australia is a different beast. I’m hoping the guys can go and do a good job and we’ve got a great chance this time.<\/p>\n

“We have great depth and a great squad. The lads in the first XI, if they can stay fit and on the field we have a hell of a chance.<\/p>\n

“Ashes cricket is played with more venom behind it but these players have played a lot of international cricket and enough to know what it’s about. <\/p>\n

“We have been building nicely over the last few years but not quite got over the line in the big series, but it doesn’t get any bigger than this.<\/p>\n

“We are due a competitive performance down under and these guys have got that in the locker.”<\/p>\n

Woakes called time on his career when it became clear he would not be fit to make the Ashes tour.<\/p>\n

But he thinks he would have been selected without the injury – which famously saw him come out to bat against India with his arm in a sling<\/a> – and says he is ‘on track’ to make a playing return in franchise cricket by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

He said: “From the moment I was injured it would have been a real push to get fit for the Ashes and they needed to select the squad. It was clear I wasn’t going to make it.<\/p>\n

“In my mind I would have made the squad if I didn’t get injured, I have a lot to give and it’s always good to have guys who have done it in Australia and know what is expected.<\/p>\n

“Physically I feel great apart from a freak accident with the shoulder and it’s repairing nicely and getting stronger.<\/p>\n

“I have made big progress in the last few weeks and am hoping to play some franchise cricket in December.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England bowler Chris Woakes says Ben Stokes’ side “have a hell of a chance” of winning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-192877","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\/192877","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=192877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}