{"id":301754,"date":"2025-12-06T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301754\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:58:07","slug":"the-ashes-2025-mitchell-starc-delights-in-grinding-down-englands-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301754\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025: Mitchell Starc delights in grinding down England&#8217;s hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a sunny weekend in Queensland, tourists will flock to the wineries of South Burnett to sample the produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But true connoisseurs will have looked to the Gabba, for the finest vintage in the state was at the crease for Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mitchell Starc, closing on his 36th birthday, shows no sign of slowing down, taking delight in grinding England&#8217;s hopes into the Brisbane dirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having taken 6-75 in England&#8217;s innings, adding to his match figures of 10-113 in the first Test, Starc arrived at the crease on day two and took the game away from England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time of his arrival, Australia held a first-innings lead of 49. When he departed,  34 overs later, it was at 157 and the tourists were staring firmly down the barrel of another defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While England&#8217;s tailenders may favour an aggressive approach, Starc was more stoic, playing shorter lengths on merit and punishing the fuller ball in his 141-ball 77.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His strike-rate touched 200 to anything pitched up by England&#8217;s seamers, but back-of-a-length balls only went at 61 &#8211; marginally higher than his career rate of 49 to those deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a sunny weekend in Queensland, tourists will flock to the wineries of South Burnett to sample the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-301754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301754","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=301754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}