{"id":5086,"date":"2026-01-04T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:47:22","slug":"the-ashes-2025-26-pick-your-combined-australia-england-team-of-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5086","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025-26: Pick your combined Australia-England team of the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Select four of the players in the vote below to fulfil slots eight to 11 in your team.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Mitchell Starc: <\/b>Matches: five, wickets: 27, average: 18.74, strike-rate: 27.51; runs: 151<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scott Boland: <\/b>Matches: five, wickets: 17, average: 24.47, strike-rate: 43<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Pat Cummins: <\/b>Matches: one, wickets: six, average: 19.50, strike-rate: 34<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Brendan Doggett: <\/b>Matches: two, wickets: seven, average: 30.71, strike-rate: 41.42<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Michael Neser: <\/b>Matches: three, wickets: 11, average: 20, strike-rate: 31.81<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Nathan Lyon: <\/b>Matches: two, wickets: five, average: 31.40, strike-rate: 66<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jhye Richardson: <\/b>Matches: one, wickets: two, average: 15, strike-rate: 28<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jofra Archer: <\/b>Matches: three, wickets: nine, average: 27.11, strike-rate: 53.33, runs: 102<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Brydon Carse: <\/b>Matches: five, wickets: 19, average: 25.57, strike-rate: 32.73<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Gus Atkinson: <\/b>Matches: three, wickets: six, average: 47.33, strike-rate: 73<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Josh Tongue: <\/b>Matches: three, wickets: 12, average: 18.58, strike-rate: 28.16<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Mark Wood: <\/b>Matches: one, wickets: none, average: N\/A, strike-rate: N\/A<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Select four of the players in the vote below to fulfil slots eight to 11 in your team. Mitchell Starc: Matches: five, wickets: 27, average: 18.74, strike-rate: 27.51; runs: 151 Scott Boland: Matches: five, wickets: 17, average: 24.47, strike-rate: 43 Pat Cummins: Matches: one, wickets: six, average: 19.50, strike-rate: 34 Brendan Doggett: Matches: two, wickets:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5086","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\/5086","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=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}