{"id":351697,"date":"2026-01-04T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351697\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:21:12","slug":"the-ashes-2025-26-pick-your-combined-australia-england-team-of-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351697\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025-26: Pick your combined Australia-England team of the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Select four of the players in the vote below to fulfil slots eight to 11 in your team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mitchell Starc: Matches: five, wickets: 27, average: 18.74, strike-rate: 27.51; runs: 151<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott Boland: Matches: five, wickets: 17, average: 24.47, strike-rate: 43<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pat Cummins: Matches: one, wickets: six, average: 19.50, strike-rate: 34<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brendan Doggett: Matches: two, wickets: seven, average: 30.71, strike-rate: 41.42<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Neser: Matches: three, wickets: 11, average: 20, strike-rate: 31.81<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nathan Lyon: Matches: two, wickets: five, average: 31.40, strike-rate: 66<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jhye Richardson: Matches: one, wickets: two, average: 15, strike-rate: 28<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jofra Archer: Matches: three, wickets: nine, average: 27.11, strike-rate: 53.33, runs: 102<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brydon Carse: Matches: five, wickets: 19, average: 25.57, strike-rate: 32.73<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gus Atkinson: Matches: three, wickets: six, average: 47.33, strike-rate: 73<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Josh Tongue: Matches: three, wickets: 12, average: 18.58, strike-rate: 28.16<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Wood: Matches: one, wickets: none, average: N\/A, strike-rate: N\/A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Select four of the players in the vote below to fulfil slots eight to 11 in your team.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-351697","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\/351697","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=351697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}