{"id":217969,"date":"2025-10-22T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217969\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:48:07","slug":"marnus-told-me-in-the-summer-hell-be-back-in-the-test-team-steve-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217969\/","title":{"rendered":"Marnus told me in the summer he&#8217;ll be back in the Test team &#8211; Steve Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smith revealed a shift in his approach too, talking about not hitting as many balls in the nets as he previously used to and keeping mentally fresh. &#8220;Honestly, it takes me two hits to get sorted. I feel like I&#8217;m ready to go now. There&#8217;s obviously a balance, but I don&#8217;t think it takes me much now to get up to game speed and I want to try and stay as mentally fresh. Technically I feel in a good place, it&#8217;s about being mentally fresh. I&#8217;m not hitting as many balls as I used to. It&#8217;s to try and get the most out of myself mentally when I&#8217;m out in the middle and be able to concentrate for long periods of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith revealed a shift in his approach too, talking about not hitting as many balls in the nets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27998,428,1721,91189,101,81753,26317,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-217969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-2025-26","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-marnus-labuschagne","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-steven-smith","14":"tag-the-ashes","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217969","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=217969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}