{"id":10427,"date":"2025-12-26T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=674857"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:50:10","slug":"eng-vs-aus-4th-test-boxing-day-test-starc-strikes-again-as-crawley-falls-england-slide-to-9-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/eng-vs-aus-4th-test-boxing-day-test-starc-strikes-again-as-crawley-falls-england-slide-to-9-3\/","title":{"rendered":"ENG vs AUS 4th Test, Boxing Day Test: Starc strikes again as Crawley falls; England slide to 9\/3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Starc delivered another early blow for Australia as <strong>Zak Crawley was caught by Steve Smith for 5<\/strong>, leaving <strong>England reeling at 9\/3 after 5 overs<\/strong>. Bowling at pace, Starc hit a good length around off stump at 143.2 kph, and Crawley pushed at the ball with hard hands. The wobble-seam delivery straightened just enough to take a thick outside edge, and <strong>Smith pouched a sharp catch to the right of second slip<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened earlier:<\/strong><br \/>\nEngland\u2019s innings had already begun on a shaky note. <strong>Ben Duckett was dismissed for 2<\/strong> in the opening overs, followed soon after by <strong>Jacob Bethell falling for 1<\/strong>, edging Michael Neser through to Alex Carey. The visitors lost two wickets inside four overs, continuing their trend of early collapses in the series.<\/p>\n<p>With Crawley\u2019s dismissal, <strong>England have now lost three wickets inside the first five overs<\/strong>, once again underlining their struggles against the new ball in this Ashes contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Starc delivered another early blow for Australia as Zak Crawley was caught by Steve Smith for 5, leaving England\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-10427","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\/10427","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=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/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=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}