{"id":31154,"date":"2025-07-29T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31154\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:36:09","slug":"england-and-wales-cricket-board-ecb-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31154\/","title":{"rendered":"England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">The game will take place at the Manuka Oval in November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket Australia has confirmed that the Prime Minister\u2019s XI will take on an England Men\u2019s XI in a two-day, day-night fixture at Manuka Oval on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30, November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This year will mark the eleventh occasion on which England has faced the Prime Minister\u2019s XI &#8211; and the first to be played with the pink Kookaburra ball.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia:\u00a0\u201cThis year, we welcome an England XI to Manuka Oval for what promises to be a thrilling contest ahead of the greatest rivalry in cricket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Ashes series is something every cricket fan looks forward to. Like many Australians, I grew up admiring and begrudging the brilliance of players like Ian Botham, David Gower, and Graham Gooch.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>&#8220;I look forward to meeting with the selectors to finalise a PM\u2019s XI that showcases the best available talent from across Australia to take on the strong English team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>England will begin their five-match Ashes Test series in Perth on November 21. Meanwhile, the England Lions will start their Australian tour in Perth in November, with fixtures against England and a Cricket Australia XI. They will conclude their tour with a match against Australia A in Brisbane at the beginning of December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The game will take place at the Manuka Oval in November 2025. Cricket Australia has confirmed that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-31154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154","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=31154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}