{"id":10439,"date":"2025-12-26T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=674936"},"modified":"2025-12-26T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:51:57","slug":"20-wickets-fall-on-day-1-as-england-are-bowled-out-for-110-in-4th-ashes-test-at-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/20-wickets-fall-on-day-1-as-england-are-bowled-out-for-110-in-4th-ashes-test-at-mcg\/","title":{"rendered":"20 wickets fall on Day 1 as England are bowled out for 110 in 4th Ashes Test at MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic opening day unfolded at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Thursday as <strong>all 20 wickets fell on Day 1<\/strong> of the fourth Ashes Test, with <strong>England bowled out for 110 in reply to Australia\u2019s 152<\/strong>, trailing by <strong>42 runs at the innings break<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After opting to bowl first, England struck early and bundled out Australia for a modest total, but the hosts hit back emphatically with the ball. Australia\u2019s pace attack exploited seam movement and uneven bounce, triggering a stunning English collapse that saw wickets tumble regularly through all three sessions.<\/p>\n<p>England were reduced to <strong>66\/5<\/strong>, then <strong>83\/8<\/strong>, before eventually being dismissed in <strong>29.5 overs<\/strong>. <strong>Gus Atkinson top-scored with 28<\/strong>, while none of the other batters managed to convert starts into substantial contributions as Australia maintained relentless pressure.<\/p>\n<p>For Australia, the bowling effort was led by <strong>Scott Boland and Mitchell Starc<\/strong>, with support from <strong>Michael Neser and Cameron Green<\/strong>, as England lost their last five wickets for minimal resistance. The final blow came when <strong>Atkinson was bowled by Green<\/strong>, sealing England\u2019s collapse and ensuring a dramatic close to the day.<\/p>\n<p>With both sides dismissed on Day 1, the match remains finely poised, but Australia will take confidence from their bowling performance and the first-innings lead heading into Day 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic opening day unfolded at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Thursday as all 20 wickets fell on Day 1\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10439","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\/10439","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=10439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}