{"id":292254,"date":"2025-12-01T00:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292254\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:31:06","slug":"the-ashes-2025-26-englands-joe-root-plays-down-his-struggles-in-australia-and-questions-need-for-pink-ball-test-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292254\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025\/26: England&#039;s Joe Root plays down his struggles in Australia and questions need for pink-ball Test &#8211; Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi-AFBVV95cUxNdzEzUGNrSXpOdWdDVW15X2xXZjZadmw3Smdic093bUVRSlFhajJzYU1fYTluQm9nUS1tYmFyQWhxdDRTSS14bjFvdmlhLVQ2RTlZQVZzQUMwN21KVDlHWG5vTVBDV3cyQ18yR2dyMk11TFlGdW9VS204MlhjbDNUTFlGWTN4emZaaHBES2ljaUIySVZhYThpVFdxWHNDWGNlSV8zOHZ4ak5aclVTSm0zeUZ6aUJxbmtFa2gyT1RuUUh6Z2hyZUJzdGplYmRJc3Vra1MzU1RDS0NMRlgtOFpkdWV4QlRvSHhpNTl3RFpaNGJsZGlJU0NNcg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Ashes 2025\/26: England&#8217;s Joe Root plays down his struggles in Australia and questions need for pink-ball Test<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky Sports<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiaEFVX3lxTE5idHhBNWwxT0xyUkFqRVRMNDlMZjR5STRtOGdKMGlEeWhTbk5KeWtJLTlleEpUMmYzaGEweWNiTTB4N1NXQVN4UlEyYjVDUVl6WURQYWtWZWVpWEUtVjNWOFRuak9GNEto?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Ashes pink-ball Test: England&#8217;s Joe Root and Australia&#8217;s Travis Head differ on Gabba match<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxPZE1BNjFOb1llVU5lSU5UNXJrU1BkcndvdUpCRkQ5a2tpaVZuQktlVGUybmJ6bGdNMGYxZ3NudEU4bzc5eTZFdXd1NmhEQUVBaXAwTGlmX1JpN1ZZRlRWT2VEVjBHeDZDcGlpSHdOczdCNy1DbklvQjMyUU9VcVdaSXV6aEhNZU91cVNYc0hiRW5LVHFtSGlfZDA0Q3NSNmpWTGREV21fTHp1RVhjUW5KN2N3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Root unperturbed by &#8216;challenge&#8217; of facing pink-ball master Starc<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ESPNcricinfo<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxNZWlsa3RBeDcyVmVCTnk1NjhyS0tXa0pXQ01zbTBCQk84M3l0VkN4NC16bk1ZX3llYWVyOHhTa3hMN1ZRQk9RYkJBeWFmbmJfaHBhelVnYmt1MGs0a0NyQkFtcXp1Z0twWEo3X2ExOUMxWk1QeDRmbll6N0I0elRRTGg2c181TnA3emVxbkpqRFRlODQ0ODJv?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe Root: Ashes does not need pink-ball Tests<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxPemx6UHk1QnhDNmx0NXVLaGVpZkFZSVVVelBIdkJUQWVTMWdLMnBaZXJwQ19SQnFLSThwTTZGTXRJY0RmWmpoRnJ2Y2U1QnEtRVN6SkZZSlVGNDRfNUg4dnVRQ240Rm55R2phandDYi1kV0FGZWFPVXlBS21HSk51d05WeEI3UjY5ZmZvOWNkMm9vTm51Ui02N0tXYW8yRHlOZy1rOWFmUTVsTGZnemlFLUJZQnhJYllzeVkwa25OWkVuZ0Y4c3pPeQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe Root not a fan of day-night Ashes Test but aware he needs to shine under lights<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025\/26: England&#8217;s Joe Root plays down his struggles in Australia and questions need for pink-ball Test&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-292254","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\/292254","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=292254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}