{"id":300443,"date":"2025-12-05T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300443\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:02:10","slug":"ashes-2025-26-jacob-bethell-out-cheaply-as-australia-a-dominate-england-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300443\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 2025-26: Jacob Bethell out cheaply as Australia A dominate England Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batter Jacob Bethell again failed to press his case for a place in England&#8217;s Ashes XI as he was dismissed for 19 on day one of England Lions&#8217; match against Australia A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bethell miscued to cover off spinner Todd Murphy as the Lions were dismissed for 166 in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old left-hander was viewed as a possible member of England&#8217;s Test side XI but has been unable usurp incumbent Ollie Pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bethell&#8217;s highest score in five innings on the white-ball tour to New Zealand was 24 and he made only four in his first knock in Australia, during the pre-series warm-up at Lilac Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made 70 in the second innings but has since made 44 in a four-day match against a Cricket Australia XI in Perth and then 16 in a pink-ball match in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jhye Richardson took 4-35 against the Lions, pushing his case for a Test place, as a strong Australia A side dominated day one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After dismissing the Lions in 50 overs, the hosts reached 155-2 with highly-rated 23-year-old batter Campbell Kellaway making 71 from 75 balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Batter Jacob Bethell again failed to press his case for a place in England&#8217;s Ashes XI as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-300443","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\/300443","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=300443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}