{"id":1155122,"date":"2026-08-18T06:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1155122\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:42:15","slug":"opener-left-out-as-australia-reveal-squad-for-second-test-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1155122\/","title":{"rendered":"Opener left out as Australia reveal squad for second Test | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It means regular No.3 Marnus Labuschagne holds his place in the squad, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/mcdonald-backs-lyon-despite-darwin-struggles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australia coach Andrew McDonald admitting the right-hander had some work to do<\/a> to ensure his place in the team going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it was 31 he got in the second innings, and up until the point he got out, you&#8217;d sit there and say he was looking good,&#8221; McDonald said of Labuschagne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was moving well, he&#8217;s clipping off his pads, he was getting back through the ball down the ground. So it&#8217;s easy for me to sit here and try to defend that, but ultimately it&#8217;s 31. It&#8217;s not a big score. He&#8217;s lacked runs. He feels that. We feel that. We&#8217;re working incredibly hard as a coaching group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back-up keeper-batter Josh Inglis and reserve bowler Scott Boland retain their place in Australia&#8217;s squad for the second Test that commences on Saturday and could come into contention for a recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It means regular No.3 Marnus Labuschagne holds his place in the squad, with Australia coach Andrew McDonald admitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1155123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,145387,145385,56086,145400,145396,145399,145397,11096,145398,145395,145401,145407,145406,145388,2192,145405,145390,145389,30566,145393,145394,145403,79,145402,145404,145392,145386,145391,16,15],"class_list":["post-1155122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}