{"id":344806,"date":"2025-12-31T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344806\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:44:08","slug":"england-bowlers-ashes-performance-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344806\/","title":{"rendered":"England bowler&#8217;s Ashes performance &#8216;dream come true&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friends and family of bowler Josh Tongue said his performance for England against Australia was a &#8220;dream come true&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Redditch, Bromyard and Worcestershire cricketer took seven wickets in the fourth Ashes test at the MCG, England&#8217;s first test win down under in nearly 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The player will finish 2025 as the first England bowler to be named player of the match in an Ashes test in Australia since 1998, when Tongue was just a baby himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tim Piper, the landlord of The Cricketers Arms in Redditch, went to Australia to watch with the bowler&#8217;s dad Phil Tongue and told BBC Hereford &amp; Worcester even the home fans &#8220;couldn&#8217;t believe what they were seeing&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends and family of bowler Josh Tongue said his performance for England against Australia was a &#8220;dream come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-344806","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\/344806","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=344806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}