{"id":9851,"date":"2025-12-04T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=667066"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:35:37","slug":"eng-vs-aus-2nd-test-mitchell-starc-strikes-in-the-first-over-again-duckett-falls-for-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/eng-vs-aus-2nd-test-mitchell-starc-strikes-in-the-first-over-again-duckett-falls-for-0\/","title":{"rendered":"ENG vs AUS, 2nd Test: Mitchell Starc strikes in the first over again \u2014 Duckett falls for 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"368\">Mitchell Starc has done it <em data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"197\">again<\/em>. The Australian left-arm quick, famous for his deadly first overs in Test cricket, struck with just his sixth delivery of the Gabba Test, removing Ben Duckett for a duck.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"692\">Starc bowled a full, angled delivery that drew Duckett into a push, only for the ball to fly straight to Marnus Labuschagne at fourth slip. England were rocked early at <strong data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"546\">5\/1<\/strong>, continuing Duckett\u2019s struggles against Starc \u2014 a repeat of the opening-Test pattern where Zak Crawley fell twice to the pacer in the first over.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"694\" data-end=\"853\">With three slips and a gully waiting for the mistake, Australia\u2019s plan worked instantly, giving them the perfect start under pink-ball conditions at the Gabba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Starc has done it again. The Australian left-arm quick, famous for his deadly first overs in Test cricket, struck\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9851","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\/9851","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=9851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}