{"id":325441,"date":"2025-12-19T22:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325441\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:39:10","slug":"ashes-2025-26-when-is-the-fourth-test-and-what-are-the-session-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325441\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 2025-26: When is the fourth test and what are the session times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fourth Test of the 2025-26 Ashes series takes place in Melbourne and starts on Friday, 26 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play will start at 10:00 local time, which is 23:30 GMT on Christmas Day in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The traditional Boxing Day match is scheduled to start six days after the conclusion of the third Test in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is an annual tradition to host a Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Boxing Day, dating back to the first between Australia and West Indies in 1968.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eleven Ashes Tests have been held at the MCG since 1974, with Australia winning five, England four and two draws taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alastair Cook famously hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/42499970\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">244 not out in 2017<\/a> &#8211; the highest score by a visiting batter at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final match of the series will take place in Sydney in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fourth Test of the 2025-26 Ashes series takes place in Melbourne and starts on Friday, 26 December.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-325441","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\/325441","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=325441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}