{"id":68869,"date":"2025-08-15T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68869\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:40:07","slug":"ahmed-targets-all-round-consistency-before-ashes-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68869\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed targets all-round consistency before Ashes | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Ahmed was thrilled at the prospect of featuring in the Ashes, he was keeping his feet grounded, stating that the ultimate call on selection remained with the managememnt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never been to Australia, never played there. It looks a great place to play, and the Ashes is an incredible occasion. I\u2019d love to be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know the management, if they pick me, they back me 100 per cent. If they don\u2019t, it\u2019s because they don\u2019t think I\u2019m the right man for the job there. I have full faith in their judgement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you asked any man on the street if they wanted to play in the Ashes, they\u2019d jump at the chance. If I don\u2019t go, it\u2019ll be a great watch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Ahmed was thrilled at the prospect of featuring in the Ashes, he was keeping his feet grounded,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27998,9830,7529,1721,7530,9829,50,35926,101,26317,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-68869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-2025-26","tag-2025-27","tag-app-stream","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-icc-world-test-championship","tag-news","tag-rehan-ahmed-08-13-2004","tag-sports","tag-the-ashes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68869","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=68869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}