{"id":591606,"date":"2025-11-24T22:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591606\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:24:14","slug":"wood-marks-englands-task-ahead-of-the-second-ashes-test-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591606\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood marks England\u2019s task ahead of the second Ashes Test | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI definitely feel we&#8217;ve got 20 wickets, certainly. The team has been designed to take 20 wickets in these conditions, [Brydon] Carse bowled beautifully this game, ran in all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made things happen, he was constantly at people. Gus [Atkinson] didn&#8217;t get any wickets but he nibbled it around and beat the bat a lot. Jofra [Archer], I thought we saw the best of him, especially that opening spell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a group we can take a lot of confidence from that game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the next encounter, all set to be a day-night outing, Wood was hopeful England\u2019s tactics will keep them in contention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a day-night Test, we know around night time it can zip around. If it can zip around at pace that can make it doubly difficult [to bat].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second Ashes Test will begin from 4 December, with crucial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICC World Test Championship<\/a> points also on the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI definitely feel we&#8217;ve got 20 wickets, certainly. The team has been designed to take 20 wickets in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"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":{"0":"post-591606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","10":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","11":"tag-cricket-live-score","12":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","13":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","16":"tag-cricket-news","17":"tag-cricket-results-today","18":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","19":"tag-cricket-series-updates","20":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","21":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","22":"tag-cricket-world-news","23":"tag-icc","24":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","25":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","26":"tag-international-cricket-news","27":"tag-latest-cricket-news","28":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","29":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","30":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","34":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","36":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score","37":"tag-uk","38":"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\/591606","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=591606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}