{"id":274201,"date":"2025-11-20T20:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274201\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:11:18","slug":"the-ashes-2025-predictions-for-series-from-michael-vaughan-phil-tufnell-jonathan-agnew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274201\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025: Predictions for series from Michael Vaughan, Phil Tufnell &#038; Jonathan Agnew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is potentially optimistic from both an English point of view and a fan-of-close-fought-Test-series standpoint, but I think the way England successfully attacked Australia&#8217;s elite bowling attack at home in 2023 offers a hopeful blueprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They discomforted the habitually parsimonious Cummins, Hazlewood and Boland, who all suffered their most expensive series.  If they can achieve something similar away from home \u2013 a tough challenge, especially if the pitches follow recent Australian trends \u2013 they have enough potency in their bowling to be competitive throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the very least, I expect England to have their second-best Ashes since 1990, which is, admittedly, an almost subterraneanly low bar. And I may reassess after 0.5 seconds of the series. Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prediction: Australia 2-3 England<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is potentially optimistic from both an English point of view and a fan-of-close-fought-Test-series standpoint, but I think&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-274201","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\/274201","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=274201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}