{"id":58532,"date":"2025-08-11T06:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58532\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:03:24","slug":"labuschagne-ready-to-return-as-test-opener-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58532\/","title":{"rendered":"Labuschagne ready to return as Test opener | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you had asked me where I prefer to bat, obviously I have batted at three my whole career, but at this stage you don&#8217;t get a choice. I opened in the World Test Championship final and felt I batted quite well. I got in but did not go on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labuschagne scored 39 runs over two innings in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/videos\/south-africa-best-australia-to-seize-the-ultimate-test-match-highlights-wtc25-final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final<\/a> at Lord\u2019s, getting starts but failing to convert them. But the batter, who plays three Sheffield Shield games before the Australia home Tests, can still be in consideration given Sam Konstas\u2019 dry run in the West Indies (50 runs from six innings).<\/p>\n<p>Labuschagne is still a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/key-players-return-as-australia-reveal-squads-for-proteas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">part of the ODI setup<\/a>, and can feature in the upcoming three-game series against South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf you had asked me where I prefer to bat, obviously I have batted at three my whole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9830,7529,1721,7530,9829,31811,50,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-58532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-2025-27","tag-app-stream","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-icc-world-test-championship","tag-marnus-labuschagne-06-22-1994","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58532","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=58532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}