{"id":357270,"date":"2026-01-07T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357270\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:53:09","slug":"the-ashes-2026-cricket-news-england-teammates-ollie-pope-and-will-jacks-clash-at-scg-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357270\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2026 cricket news, England teammates Ollie Pope and Will Jacks clash at SCG, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pressure appears to be mounting on England<\/a> as yet another gruelling Ashes<\/a> campaign in Australia winds down.<\/p>\n

The tourists managed to win the MCG dead rubber but are heading for a draw at best, or possibly a fourth loss for the series against the Aussies in Sydney.<\/p>\n

Having already lost the Ashes series in record time, there seems to be some simmering tension within the English dressing room.<\/p>\n

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Will Jacks collides with England teammate Ollie Pope at the SCG.\u00a0Fox Cricket<\/p>\n

It threatened to reach boiling point on Tuesday when, late in the day, Steve Smith hit a single to square leg and both Ollie Pope and Will Jacks attempted to field it.<\/p>\n

Pope got to the ball first but Jacks – his county teammate at Surrey – accidentally ran into him.<\/p>\n

Pope stared daggers at Jacks and had a word to him as the latter trudged away sheepishly.<\/p>\n

“He’s had one of those days in the field, Will Jacks, hasn’t he,” England great Michael Vaughan said on Fox Cricket.<\/p>\n

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Will Jacks collides with England teammate Ollie Pope at the SCG.\u00a0Fox Cricket<\/p>\n

Aussie women’s captain Alyssa Healy said, “I don’t think Ollie Pope was too happy about that”, while Adam Gilchrist noted, “I don’t think that was a light-hearted exchange”.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day Jacks had dropped an absolute sitter off Travis Head.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time this series England’s players have clashed.<\/p>\n

In Adelaide, captain Ben Stokes had a tense moment with fast bowler Jofra Archer, who wasn’t too keen to celebrate a wicket with his skipper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pressure appears to be mounting on England as yet another gruelling Ashes campaign in Australia winds down.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-357270","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\/357270","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=357270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}