{"id":10371,"date":"2025-12-19T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=673051"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:00:45","slug":"ashes-3rd-test-scott-boland-removes-jofra-archer-after-gritty-fifty-as-england-bowled-out-for-286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ashes-3rd-test-scott-boland-removes-jofra-archer-after-gritty-fifty-as-england-bowled-out-for-286\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 3rd Test: Scott Boland removes Jofra Archer after gritty fifty as England bowled out for 286"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s resistance in the first innings of the third Ashes Test came to an end after <strong>Scott Boland dismissed Jofra Archer for a hard-fought 51<\/strong>, wrapping up England for <strong>286 in 87.2 overs<\/strong> at the Adelaide Oval on Day 3 morning.<\/p>\n<p>Archer, who had already impressed with a five-wicket haul earlier in the match, played a crucial hand with the bat, grinding out his <strong>maiden Test half-century<\/strong> off 105 deliveries. His innings briefly revived England\u2019s hopes of narrowing the deficit after top-order struggles left them under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough came when Boland pitched the ball up outside off at 135.6 kph. Archer drove hard away from his body, only to find a thick outside edge that flew safely to <strong>Marnus Labuschagne at first slip<\/strong>, who made no mistake. The dismissal ended Archer\u2019s resistance and effectively closed England\u2019s innings.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, England had shown signs of a fightback through <strong>Ben Stokes\u2019 marathon knock of 83 off 198 balls<\/strong>, his slowest Test fifty coming off 159 deliveries. However, Mitchell Starc shattered the momentum by bowling Stokes with a sharp nip-backer, opening the door for Australia to clean up the tail.<\/p>\n<p>Boland finished as Australia\u2019s most effective bowler in the innings, returning <strong>3 for 45<\/strong>, while Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins provided key breakthroughs at crucial moments. Nathan Lyon\u2019s twin strikes earlier had already tilted the contest firmly in Australia\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n<p>With England dismissed for 286, they <strong>trail Australia by 85 runs<\/strong>, giving the hosts a valuable first-innings lead as the match heads into a decisive phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s resistance in the first innings of the third Ashes Test came to an end after Scott Boland dismissed Jofra\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}