{"id":588244,"date":"2025-11-23T06:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588244\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:35:16","slug":"six-balls-no-runs-how-likely-england-victory-turned-into-dire-ashes-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588244\/","title":{"rendered":"Six balls, no runs&#8230; how likely England victory turned into dire Ashes defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">Instead, he lined up another expansive cover drive, only for Starc\u2019s three-quarter-seam ball to deck in off the seam, take his inside edge and deflect onto his stumps. He doubled over his bat handle as Starc wheeled away, and the brief sense of relative calm had transformed into utter chaos. \u201cThree identical strokes, pretty much the same length, same line, same result,\u201d Michael Vaughan lamented on Fox\u2019s commentary. Soon enough \u2013 and despite some unapologetic swiping from Gus Atkinson and Brydon Carse \u2013 Australia had run through the lower order, and Travis Head\u2019s innings for the ages left England in the dirt. \u201cI\u2019m a little bit shell-shocked,\u201d Ben Stokes reflected. \u201cIt\u2019s a tough one, as we felt we were in control.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instead, he lined up another expansive cover drive, only for Starc\u2019s three-quarter-seam ball to deck in off the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[23382,748,1406,393,4884,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-588244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-ashes","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115597628253079963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588244","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=588244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}