{"id":271542,"date":"2025-11-19T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271542\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:43:08","slug":"ashes-2025-26-can-england-end-the-drought-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271542\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 2025\/26: Can England end the drought Down Under?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England have historically been poor starters in the Ashes, especially in Australia, the hosts leading 12-2 (six draws) in 20 series openers post World War II. The last time England began an away Ashes with a win was in 1986\/87 in Brisbane, and eventually took the series 2-1, which remained their only triumph until 2005. In the 2010\/11 opener at the same venue, their top-order put on a stellar resistance to save the game after conceding a 221-run first innings lead, which was followed by an innings win in Adelaide. England have lost the Ashes openers of each of the last four editions &#8211; home or away &#8211; and were, in fact 0-2 down heading into the third Test in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have historically been poor starters in the Ashes, especially in Australia, the hosts leading 12-2 (six draws)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[106121,27998,428,1721,309,101,26317,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-271542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-1st-test","tag-2025-26","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-sports","tag-the-ashes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271542","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=271542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}