{"id":280836,"date":"2025-11-24T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280836\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:54:14","slug":"the-ashes-jacob-bethell-makes-44-in-england-lions-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280836\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: Jacob Bethell makes 44 in England Lions game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jacob Bethell could not make a compelling claim for inclusion in England&#8217;s Test side, making 44 for England Lions against a Cricket Australia XI at Lilac Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bethell was released from the Ashes squad on Saturday to join the Lions on the second day of their four-day game, alongside Will Jacks and Matthew Potts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-hander resumed on one on Sunday morning and batted calmly against an attack including Australia Test bowler Jhye Richardson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batting at number three, Bethell added 60 for the third-wicket with Jacks until the Surrey man edged the spin of Nivethan Radhakrishnan to slip on 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bethell was at the crease throughout the morning session, only to clip seamer Xavier Crone to mid-wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Set 232 to win, the CA XI ended the penultimate day on 90-0. Josh Inglis, a possible option for Australia in the second Test if Usman Khawaja does not play, reached 44 not out opening the batting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Bethell could not make a compelling claim for inclusion in England&#8217;s Test side, making 44 for England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-280836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280836","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=280836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}