{"id":215325,"date":"2025-10-21T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215325\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:19:07","slug":"england-v-australia-reece-walsh-gehamat-shibasaki-and-mark-nawaqanitawase-start-for-kangaroos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215325\/","title":{"rendered":"England v Australia: Reece Walsh, Gehamat Shibasaki and Mark Nawaqanitawase start for Kangaroos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forward Keaon Koloamatangi, a fourth debutant, will start on the bench. He has switched allegiance from Tonga, for whom he played at the last World Cup three years ago. He also played for them in their three-match series against England in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be huge thrill for all four of them to wear the green and gold for the first time in a Test match at such an iconic stadium,&#8221; Australia head coach Kevin Walters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited for them as well as all of our players. Every member of our squad, whether they take the field or not, is about to experience something incredibly special this Saturday at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As I&#8217;ve said from day one of our preparations here in England, we&#8217;re on this Ashes journey together because it&#8217;s going to take a collective effort from everyone involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia team: Reece Walsh, Mark Nawaqanitawase, Kotoni Staggs, Gehamat Shibasaki, Josh Addo-Carr, Cameron Munster, Nathan Cleary, Patrick Carrigan, Harry Grant, Tino Fa&#8217;asuamaleaui, Angus Crichton, Hudson Young, Isaah Yeo (captain).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Interchanges: Tom Dearden, Lindsay Collins, Reuben Cotter, Keaon Koloamatangi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reserves: Bradman Best, Lindsay Smith, Mitchell Moses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Keaon Koloamatangi, a fourth debutant, will start on the bench. He has switched allegiance from Tonga, for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-215325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","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\/215325","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=215325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}