{"id":336185,"date":"2025-12-26T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336185\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:00:09","slug":"australia-finalise-playing-xi-for-boxing-day-test-at-mcg-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336185\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia finalise playing XI for Boxing Day Test at MCG | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia XI: Travis Head, Jake Weatherald, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith (c), Usman Khawaja, Alex Carey (wk), Cameron Green, Michael Neser, Mitchell Starc, Jhye Richardson, Scott Boland<\/p>\n<p>England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Jacob Bethell, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Will Jacks, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue<\/p>\n<p>Ashes schedule:<\/p>\n<p>First Test: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/matches\/253242\/australia-vs-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Perth Stadium, November 21-22 (Australia won by eight wickets)<\/a><br \/>Second Test: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/matches\/253243\/australia-vs-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gabba, December 4-7 (Australia won by eight wickets)<\/a><br \/>Third Test: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/matches\/253244\/australia-vs-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adelaide Oval, December 17-21 (Australia won by 82 runs)<\/a><br \/>Fourth Test: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/matches\/253245\/australia-vs-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MCG, December 26-30<\/a><br \/>Fifth Test: SCG, January 4-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia XI: Travis Head, Jake Weatherald, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith (c), Usman Khawaja, Alex Carey (wk), Cameron Green,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,67813,67811,67817,67827,67823,67826,67824,16326,67825,67822,67828,67834,67833,67814,6518,67832,67816,67815,67810,67820,67821,67830,101,67829,67831,67819,67812,67818,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-336185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336185","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=336185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}