{"id":9903,"date":"2025-12-06T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=668224"},"modified":"2025-12-06T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:00:20","slug":"australia-vs-england-2nd-test-day-3-mitchell-starc-brings-up-his-12th-test-fifty-as-australia-extend-their-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australia-vs-england-2nd-test-day-3-mitchell-starc-brings-up-his-12th-test-fifty-as-australia-extend-their-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs England, 2nd Test Day 3: Mitchell Starc brings up his 12th Test fifty as Australia extend their lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"443\">Australia\u2019s lower order continued to frustrate England on Day 3 of the second Ashes Test at The Gabba, with <strong data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"393\">Mitchell Starc bringing up a well-constructed half-century<\/strong> to keep Australia firmly in control of the match.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"771\">Starc reached his <strong data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"482\">12th Test fifty<\/strong> with a powerful boundary off Will Jacks. The delivery was tossed up outside off, and Starc stepped forward to <strong data-start=\"593\" data-end=\"628\">slug it flat through mid-wicket<\/strong>, finding the gap with authority. He moved to 50 from 110 balls, keeping Australia\u2019s lead building as England searched desperately for wickets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"773\" data-end=\"947\">At the time of the milestone, Australia had moved to <strong data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"835\">461\/8<\/strong>, leading England by <strong data-start=\"856\" data-end=\"868\">127 runs<\/strong>, with Starc unbeaten on 56 and Scott Boland offering support at the other end.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1116\">Starc has enjoyed a strong run with the bat throughout the series, consistently adding important lower-order runs and stretching Australia\u2019s innings at crucial stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s lower order continued to frustrate England on Day 3 of the second Ashes Test at The Gabba, with Mitchell\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9903","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\/9903","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=9903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}