{"id":357463,"date":"2026-01-07T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357463\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:08:10","slug":"the-ashes-2025-26-fifth-test-day-four-jacob-bethell-on-getting-his-first-test-century-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357463\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025\/26 fifth Test &#8211; day four: Jacob Bethell on getting his first Test century for England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jacob Bethell describes the &#8220;goosebump&#8221; moment of securing his first Test century, but says he used the disappointment of falling short of reaching the milestone in the Test series with New Zealand to ensure he stayed focused to get over the line on day four of the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MATCH REPORT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/ckgvyz4e1zwo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bethell century gives England Ashes silver lining<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Available to UK users only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Bethell describes the &#8220;goosebump&#8221; moment of securing his first Test century, but says he used the disappointment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-357463","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\/357463","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=357463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}