{"id":268120,"date":"2025-11-17T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268120\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:46:07","slug":"ashes-sam-konstas-given-chance-in-tour-match-between-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268120\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes: Sam Konstas given chance in tour match between Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opener Sam Konstas, 20, has been named in a Prime Minister&#8217;s XI to face England on 29 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Konstas, who has won five Test caps but only reached 50 once, has been left out of the Australia squad for the first Ashes Test in Perth after a string of low scores in domestic cricket, though he did make a century for Australia A against India A in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-day fixture in Canberra is a pink-ball match designed to give the tourists preparation before the day-night second Test in Brisbane, which begins on 4 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Hanscomb will captain the hosts, who also include 40-year-old bowler Peter Siddle, who played 67 Tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prime Minister&#8217;s XI to face England: Peter Handscomb (c), Benji Floros, Campbell Kellaway, Campbell Thompson, Charlie Anderson, Doug Warren, Hugh Weibgen, Joel Curtis, Nathan McSweeney, Oliver Peake, Peter Siddle, Sam Konstas, Samuel Skelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opener Sam Konstas, 20, has been named in a Prime Minister&#8217;s XI to face England on 29 November.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-268120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268120","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=268120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}