{"id":9455,"date":"2026-01-05T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9455"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:59:11","slug":"the-ashes-2025-26-fifth-test-day-two-highlights-joe-root-hits-160-but-travis-head-leads-australia-fightback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9455","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025\/26 fifth Test &#8211; day two, highlights: Joe Root hits 160 but Travis Head leads Australia fightback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joe Root hits 160 as England are bowled out for 384 in their first innings of the fifth Test with Australia closing day two 218 runs behind, as they finish on 166-2 at stumps, with Travis Head unbeaten on 91 in Sydney.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MATCH REPORT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cg5g2dvvn91o\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Head hits back after Root 160 in Ashes finale<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Available to UK users only.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Ashes #Test #day #highlights #Joe #Root #hits #Travis #leads #Australia #fightback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Root hits 160 as England a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}