{"id":6811,"date":"2023-06-29T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T11:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=328782"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T11:33:57","slug":"ashes-second-test-josh-tongues-crucial-wicket-of-steve-smith-boosts-englands-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ashes-second-test-josh-tongues-crucial-wicket-of-steve-smith-boosts-englands-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes Second Test: Josh Tongue\u2019s crucial wicket of Steve Smith boosts England\u2019s chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an enthralling encounter at Lord\u2019s on the second day of the Ashes 2nd Test, Josh Tongue produced a brilliant delivery to dismiss the formidable Steve Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Tongue had previously dismissed Smith in a county game, and now he repeated the feat on a bigger stage. It was a full delivery that tempted Smith to go for a drive, but he could only manage an outside edge.<\/p>\n<p>The ball flew to the left of Ben Duckett at gully, who exhibited excellent reflexes to take a low catch. The crowd erupted in thunderous applause as Smith made his way back to the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>Smith had played a remarkable innings, scoring 110 runs off 184 balls, including 15 boundaries. Tongue\u2019s wicket was a significant breakthrough for England, enhancing their chances of gaining control in the match.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an enthralling encounter at Lord\u2019s on the second day of the Ashes 2nd Test, Josh Tongue produced a brilliant\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":29727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2077,3623,349],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ashes","tag-josh-tongue","tag-steve-smith"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","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=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}