{"id":10425,"date":"2025-12-26T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=674852"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:48:28","slug":"ashes-4th-test-england-lose-early-wicket-again-as-opening-woes-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ashes-4th-test-england-lose-early-wicket-again-as-opening-woes-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 4th Test: England lose early wicket again as opening woes continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s struggles at the top of the order resurfaced once more as <strong>Ben Duckett fell cheaply for 2<\/strong>, edging Mitchell Starc to mid-on in the early stages. Starc bowled a full delivery at pace that shaped away late, forcing a tentative clip from Duckett. The ball ballooned off the leading edge, and <strong>Michael Neser made no mistake<\/strong>, completing a simple catch.<\/p>\n<p>The dismissal underlined a worrying trend for England\u2019s openers in the series. <strong>England\u2019s opening partnership is averaging just 14.42<\/strong>, with dismissals coming at an average of <strong>3.1 overs<\/strong>. Alarmingly, <strong>England have lost their first wicket inside the first three overs in five of the seven innings so far<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At <strong>ENG 8\/1 after 3 overs<\/strong>, Australia once again struck early, keeping pressure firmly on England and continuing a pattern that has repeatedly put the visitors on the back foot in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s struggles at the top of the order resurfaced once more as Ben Duckett fell cheaply for 2, edging Mitchell\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425","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=10425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}