{"id":268418,"date":"2025-11-17T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268418\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:32:07","slug":"england-ashes-squad-ben-stokes-joe-root-jofra-archer-harry-brook-mark-wood-profiles-stats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268418\/","title":{"rendered":"England Ashes squad: Ben Stokes, Joe Root, Jofra Archer, Harry Brook, Mark Wood &#8211; profiles &#038; stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Age: 27; Tests: 61, Runs: 3,607, Average: 35.36, Centuries: Nine<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another whose place has come under scrutiny, but having filled in as captain when Stokes was injured he was always going to be part of the group. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Pope has lost the vice-captaincy to white-ball skipper Harry Brook for this series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pope will act as the back-up wicketkeeper in case of any injury or illness to Jamie Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He&#8217;s averaged 47.70 so far in 2025, but that is boosted by 171 against Zimbabwe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The right-hander has played three Tests in Australia and averages a measly 11.16.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age: 27; Tests: 61, Runs: 3,607, Average: 35.36, Centuries: Nine Another whose place has come under scrutiny, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-268418","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\/268418","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=268418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}