{"id":282431,"date":"2025-11-25T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282431\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:22:16","slug":"the-ashes-australias-josh-inglis-makes-hundred-in-defeat-of-england-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282431\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: Australia&#8217;s Josh Inglis makes hundred in defeat of England Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s Josh Inglis pushed his case for inclusion in the the second Ashes Test with an unbeaten century against England Lions at Lilac Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inglis, opening for a Cricket Australia XI, made 125 not out to lead the home side to a target of 235.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regular Australia opener Usman Khawaja struggled with a back injury in the first-Test victory over England at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Khawaja&#8217;s absence meant Travis Head was promoted to open in the second innings at Perth Stadium, with Head crashing an astonishing hundred in Australia&#8217;s eight-wicket win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head&#8217;s success and Khawaja&#8217;s fitness leaves Australia with a decision over their team for the second Test in Brisbane on 4 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inglis was the reserve batter in Australia&#8217;s first-Test squad. If Khawaja does not play at the Gabba, Head and Inglis are interchangeable at the top of the order and number five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-231169\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Josh Inglis pushed his case for inclusion in the the second Ashes Test with an unbeaten century&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-282431","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\/282431","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=282431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}