{"id":275406,"date":"2025-11-21T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275406\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:48:11","slug":"the-ashes-2025-when-is-the-next-test-and-what-are-the-session-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275406\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025: When is the next Test and what are the session times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second Test of the 2025-26 Ashes series takes place in Brisbane and starts on Thursday, 4 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England will face Australia in a day-night Test, which will be played with a pink ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play will start at 14:00 local time, which is 04:00 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second Test starts nine days after what is scheduled to be the final day of the first Test in Perth. However, with 19 wickets falling on day one of the first Test, it is likely that the first meeting will finish prior to day five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final three matches of the series take place in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second Test of the 2025-26 Ashes series takes place in Brisbane and starts on Thursday, 4 December.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-275406","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\/275406","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=275406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}