{"id":641863,"date":"2025-12-19T08:25:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641863\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:25:25","slug":"ashes-recap-terrific-travis-head-puts-england-to-the-sword-with-his-second-ton-of-the-series-in-front-of-packed-home-ground-in-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641863\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes RECAP: Terrific Travis Head puts England to the sword with his second ton of the series in front of packed home ground in Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s day &#8211; again<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">England are on the brink after another day dominated by the hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer did their best with the bat early on &#8211; Archer making his first Test 50 and Stokes eventually falling for 83 from 198 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">With the ball, trailing by less than 100, England struck early as Carse and Tongue removed Weatherald, Labuschagne and green cheaply before Jacks picked up the wicket of Khawaja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">After that, though, it was the Head-Carey show as Travis picked up his latest century in Adelaide and Alex picked up 50 of his own in a partnership that is well over 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">It now, unfortunately, seems to be a matter of when &#8211; rather than if &#8211; Australia retain these Ashes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766127910874_wide_galleryImage_England_s_Ben_Stokes_fiel.JPG\" alt=\"England's Ben Stokes fields the ball on day three of the third NRMA Insurance Ashes Series 2025 test at the Adelaide Oval, Australia. Picture date: Friday December 19, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Robbie Stephenson\/PA Wire.RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\" height=\"417\" width=\"634\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766127918172_wide_galleryImage_ADELAIDE_AUSTRALIA_DECEMB.JPG\" alt=\"ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 19: Travis Head of Australia celebrates with Alex Carey after reaching his century during day three of the Third Test Match in the 2025-26 Ashes Series between Australia and England at Adelaide Oval on December 19, 2025 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Philip Brown\/Getty Images)\" height=\"443\" width=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s day &#8211; again England are on the brink after another day dominated by the hosts. Ben Stokes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[23382,23273,43331,748,1406,92,393,7504,4884,67663,5193,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-641863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-ashes","9":"tag-australia-cricket","10":"tag-ben-stokes","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-cricket","13":"tag-dailymail","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-england-cricket","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-jofra-archer","18":"tag-live-blog","19":"tag-sport","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115745281167891766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641863","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=641863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}