{"id":340365,"date":"2023-06-28T06:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=340365"},"modified":"2023-06-28T06:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:56:35","slug":"england-announce-playing-xi-for-second-ashes-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/england-announce-playing-xi-for-second-ashes-test\/","title":{"rendered":"England announce playing XI for second Ashes Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Islamabad<br \/>\nEngland have included seamer Josh Tongue in their team for the second Ashes Test against Australia at Lord\u2019s which starts on Wednesday.<br \/>\nTongue will replace injured spinner Moeen Ali, the country\u2019s cricket board (ECB) said on Tuesday.<br \/>\nAli was nursing a finger injury in the first match at Edgbaston and could only bowl 14 overs in the second innings.<br \/>\nThe inclusion of the 25-year-old Tongue, who claimed figures of 5-66 in the second innings of his Test debut against Ireland at Lord\u2019s this month, means that England will field an all-seam attack.<br \/>\nTongue got the nod ahead of Mark Wood, who was earlier likely to be selected for the second Test, with Joe Root expected to continue to play the role of the part-time spinner.<br \/>\nEarlier in the first Test, Australia cricket team defeated England by two wickets on the fifth day after a nail-biting finish in Edgbaston on Tuesday (June 20).<br \/>\nWhile chasing the target of 281 runs, Australia were 54 runs short to the target with just two wickets in hand when their skipper Pat Cummins walked in to bat. The right-handed pulled off a stunning contest by scoring a match-winning knock of 44 runs including four boundaries and two maximums.<br \/>\nUsman Khawaja was named player of the match for his heroics in both the first and the second innings. He scored a remarkable knock of 141 runs in the first innings and helped the Aussies avoid a collapse. In the second innings, he was once again top scored with 65 off 197.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad England have included seamer Josh Tongue in their team for the second Ashes Test against Australia at Lord\u2019s which starts on Wednesday. Tongue will replace injured spinner Moeen Ali, the country\u2019s cricket board (ECB) said on Tuesday. Ali was nursing a finger injury in the first match at Edgbaston and could only bowl 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>England announce playing XI for second Ashes Test<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/england-announce-playing-xi-for-second-ashes-test\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"England announce playing XI for second Ashes Test\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad England have included seamer Josh Tongue in their team for the second Ashes Test against Australia at Lord\u2019s which starts on Wednesday. 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