{"id":358673,"date":"2026-01-08T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358673\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:15:09","slug":"the-ashes-2025-26-who-made-your-team-of-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358673\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025-26: Who made your team of the series?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Innings: 10, runs: 184, average: 18.40, wickets: 15, average: 25.13<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A better series with the ball than with the bat for England&#8217;s skipper. Ben Stokes was frequently England&#8217;s most threatening bowler, with his best showing a 5-23 in Perth. He made half-centuries in Brisbane and Adelaide but his next highest score was 19, and he was dismissed for single figures on six occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Innings: 10, runs: 184, average: 18.40, wickets: 15, average: 25.13 A better series with the ball than with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-358673","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\/358673","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=358673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}