{"id":21677,"date":"2025-12-26T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/australia-versus-england-fourth-ashes-test\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:40","slug":"australia-versus-england-fourth-ashes-test","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/australia-versus-england-fourth-ashes-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia versus England fourth Ashes Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">It was absolute carnage on day one of the fourth Ashes test between Australia and England with 20 wickets tumbling in front of a record crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nThe highest number of wickets in a single day at the MCG since a record 25 fell in the 1902 Ashes test.<\/p>\n<p>Australia who has already clinched the series to retain the Ashes, were put into bat and they were all back in the dressing room before tea.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nJosh Tongue took a career-best\u00a0five for 45\u00a0to skittle Australia for 152 on a grassy surface.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nMichael\u00a0Neser\u00a0top scored for Australia before he too, was castled by Tongue for 35.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nThe constant loss of wickets was watched by a crowd of 93 442, eclipsing the stadium&#8217;s previous record for a day of cricket set at the 2015 World Cup final.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21678,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21677","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Carnage on day one of the fourth Ashes test between Australia and England","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25255,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21677\/revisions\/25255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}