{"id":1610,"date":"2025-11-20T13:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:45:01","slug":"the-ashes-2025-predictions-for-series-from-michael-vaughan-phil-tufnell-jonathan-agnew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025: Predictions for series from Michael Vaughan, Phil Tufnell &#038; Jonathan Agnew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is potentially optimistic from both an English point of view and a fan-of-close-fought-Test-series standpoint, but I think the way England successfully attacked Australia&#8217;s elite bowling attack at home in 2023 offers a hopeful blueprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They discomforted the habitually parsimonious Cummins, Hazlewood and Boland, who all suffered their most expensive series.  If they can achieve something similar away from home \u2013 a tough challenge, especially if the pitches follow recent Australian trends \u2013 they have enough potency in their bowling to be competitive throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the very least, I expect England to have their second-best Ashes since 1990, which is, admittedly, an almost subterraneanly low bar. And I may reassess after 0.5 seconds of the series. Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Prediction: Australia 2-3 England<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is potentially optimistic from both an English point of view and a fan-of-close-fought-Test-series standpoint, but I think the way England successfully attacked Australia&#8217;s elite bowling attack at home in 2023 offers a hopeful blueprint. &#8220;They discomforted the habitually parsimonious Cummins, Hazlewood and Boland, who all suffered their most expensive series. If they can achieve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}