{"id":51704,"date":"2025-12-25T07:09:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=51704"},"modified":"2025-12-25T07:09:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:09:57","slug":"australia-announces-mcg-test-squad-with-steve-smith-as-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=51704","title":{"rendered":"Australia Announces MCG Test Squad with Steve Smith as Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After securing a 3-0 lead in the Ashes, the 4th Test will begin tomorrow at the MCG. The Boxing Day Test, which is also the last Test of the year, will see Australia announce their squad with two changes. Steve Smith returns to the team and will lead as captain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-223-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-223-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-223-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-223-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-223.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After securing a 3-0 lead in the Ashes, the 4th Test will begin tomorrow at the MCG. The Boxing Day Test, which is also the last Test of the year, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=51704\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51708,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51704\/revisions\/51708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}