{"id":248805,"date":"2025-11-07T06:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248805\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:27:18","slug":"the-ashes-out-of-favour-england-bowler-ollie-robinson-bowls-at-steve-smith-prepare-in-sydney-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248805\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: Out-of-favour England bowler Ollie Robinson bowls at Steve Smith prepare in Sydney nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Out-of-favour England bowler Ollie Robinson bowled at Australia batter Steve Smith in the nets in Sydney on Thursday, having traveled to Australia to play club cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson, 31, who played the most recent of his 20 Tests in February 2024, was left out of England&#8217;s Ashes squad but is in Australia for a stint with Sydney University Cricket Club in the Sydney grade cricket competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He bowled at Smith and Sam Konstas &#8211; the 20-year-old Australia opener overlooked for the first Test &#8211; at New South Wales training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith is preparing for the Ashes by playing for New South Wales and scored a century last week on his return to the Sheffield Shield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While being in Australia would be of some benefit for Robinson were injury to hit England&#8217;s pace bowling stocks, an England recall appears unlikely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson, who played in the 2023 Ashes and the 2021-22 tour down under, has lost his central contract and appears to have been discarded by the current management. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A call-up from England&#8217;s Lions squads, which includes a host of younger pace bowlers, would be more likely if required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Out-of-favour England bowler Ollie Robinson bowled at Australia batter Steve Smith in the nets in Sydney on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-248805","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\/248805","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=248805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}