{"id":351047,"date":"2026-01-04T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351047\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:36:07","slug":"australia-vs-england-5th-test-day-1-highlights-results-and-latest-updates-harry-brook-survives-in-lucky-moment-before-joining-joe-root-with-half-century-at-the-scg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351047\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs England 5th Test; Day 1 highlights, results and latest updates; Harry Brook survives in &#8216;lucky&#8217; moment before joining Joe Root with half-century at the SCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCG: Earlier when a puff of dust appeared on the SCG wicket, Brett Lee said on Fox Cricket that Todd Murphy would be &#8220;licking his lips&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The reality for Murphy is the next time he plays on the wicket will be probably be January 11 for the Sixers. <\/p>\n<p>Right now Joe Root and Harry Brook are going along nicely and the general feeling here is could a spinner help?<\/p>\n<p>Murphy wasn&#8217;t too impressive in the nets during training but does anyone look great bowling to Steve Smith?<\/p>\n<p>If Travis Head gets a bowl soon, it&#8217;s probably an early admission that a spinner would&#8217;ve been a nice addition.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, England are still three wickets down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCG: Earlier when a puff of dust appeared on the SCG wicket, Brett Lee said on Fox Cricket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-351047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351047","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=351047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}