{"id":10426,"date":"2025-12-26T10:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=674853"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:49:47","slug":"ashes-4th-test-england-in-early-trouble-as-bethell-falls-to-neser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ashes-4th-test-england-in-early-trouble-as-bethell-falls-to-neser\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 4th Test: England in early trouble as Bethell falls to Neser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s top order came under further pressure as <strong>Jacob Bethell was dismissed for 1<\/strong>, leaving the visitors <strong>8\/2 after 4 overs<\/strong>. Scott Boland\u2019s replacement, <strong>Michael Neser<\/strong>, produced a probing delivery from around the wicket, full and shaping away just enough to draw the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Bethell moved forward to push at the ball but could only manage a faint outside edge, which also brushed his back pad before carrying through to <strong>Alex Carey<\/strong>, who dived sharply to his left to complete a clean catch. There was brief confusion as umpire <strong>Kumar Dharmasena<\/strong> took a moment before raising the finger, but Bethell eventually walked off after a short chat with Zak Crawley.<\/p>\n<p>It was a quality dismissal\u2014Bethell played for the angle, but the late movement did him in. With two wickets down inside four overs, <strong>England\u2019s recurring new-ball struggles have once again left them on the back foot<\/strong>, handing Australia early control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s top order came under further pressure as Jacob Bethell was dismissed for 1, leaving the visitors 8\/2 after 4\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10426","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\/10426","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=10426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}