{"id":330685,"date":"2025-12-16T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=330685"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:50:03","slug":"australia-names-xi-with-cummins-return-and-khawaja-dropped-for-adelaide-ashes-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=330685","title":{"rendered":"Australia Names XI with Cummins Return and Khawaja Dropped for Adelaide Ashes Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australia leads the Ashes 2-0 and needs just a win or draw at Adelaide Oval to claim the urn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The XI features Cummins and Nathan Lyon replacing Brendan Doggett and Michael Neser, with Travis Head and Jake Weatherald opening ahead of the dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=usman-khawaja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Usman Khawaja\">Khawaja<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-18.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-18.jpeg 583w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-18-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Usman Khawaja has been dropped for the Adelaide Test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Cummins praised the squad&#8217;s depth and team spirit. England makes one change, bringing in Josh Tongue, as Ben Stokes rallies his side to fight hard on a pitch favouring spin and seam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The XI features Cummins and Nathan Lyon replacing Brendan Doggett and Michael Neser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":330686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,14934],"tags":[19004,18668,17241],"class_list":["post-330685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cricket","tag-adelaide-oval","tag-the-ashes","tag-usman-khawaja"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330687,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330685\/revisions\/330687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}