{"id":76663,"date":"2025-11-27T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/ashes-first-test-ends-in-two-days-icc-still-rates-perth-pitch-very-good\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:36:07","slug":"ashes-first-test-ends-in-two-days-icc-still-rates-perth-pitch-very-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/ashes-first-test-ends-in-two-days-icc-still-rates-perth-pitch-very-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes: First Test ends in two days \u2014 ICC still rates Perth pitch \u2018very good\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ICC has rated the Perth Ashes Test pitch &#8216;very good&#8217; despite its rapid two-day finish, sparking debate on modern batting and pitch expectations.  While England and Australia collapsed spectacularly, the surface was deemed fair.  This follows scrutiny of India&#8217;s recent spin-friendly Kolkata Test, highlighting contrasting views on challenging playing conditions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICC has rated the Perth Ashes Test pitch &#8216;very good&#8217; despite its rapid two-day finish, sparking debate on modern batting and pitch expectations. While England and Australia collapsed spectacularly, the surface was deemed fair. This follows scrutiny of India&#8217;s recent spin-friendly Kolkata Test, highlighting contrasting views on challenging playing conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":76664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}