{"id":262055,"date":"2025-11-14T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262055\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:32:07","slug":"the-ashes-england-openers-zak-crawley-and-ben-duckett-find-form-in-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262055\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: England openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett find form in warm-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett piled on the runs on the second morning of the Ashes warm-up against England Lions in Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair moved England to 169-0 from only 27 overs in reply to the Lions&#8217; 382 all out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a run-filled, docile pitch at Lilac Hill, left-hander Duckett reached 83 from 82 balls and Crawley 71 from 87.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Duckett came through a number of alarms early in his innings, all off new-ball bowler Matthew Potts, who is in the Ashes squad but playing for the Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On six, Duckett edged between Ben McKinney at first slip and Jacob Bethell at second, a catch McKinney should have taken. Duckett also slashed Potts through the cordon on 18 and 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Duckett could also have been run out on 55, but Will Jacks&#8217; throw from the covers missed the stumps at the striker&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shoaib Bashir, England&#8217;s first-choice Ashes spinner, looked rusty in two overs that cost 11 runs. Fellow off-spinner Jacks, also in the Ashes squad, bowled one over that went for six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Wood is at the ground and will have a scan on a tight hamstring later on Friday, while fellow fast bowler Brydon Carse has recovered from the illness that prevented him from taking part on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett piled on the runs on the second morning of the Ashes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-262055","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\/262055","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=262055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}