{"id":36053,"date":"2025-12-03T00:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-ashes-2025-26-steven-finn-on-why-australia-fast-bowler-mitchell-starc-excels-with-the-pink-ball\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:54:20","slug":"the-ashes-2025-26-steven-finn-on-why-australia-fast-bowler-mitchell-starc-excels-with-the-pink-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-ashes-2025-26-steven-finn-on-why-australia-fast-bowler-mitchell-starc-excels-with-the-pink-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025-26: Steven Finn on why Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc excels with the pink ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is still hope for England. After four sessions of the first Test, they were 99 runs ahead with nine second-innings wickets remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The capitulation that happened from that point will leave a sour taste in everyone&#8217;s mouths, none more so than the players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, given the pink ball seems harder to see and the faster you bowl it, seemingly the more effective you are, it leaves England well placed to make the most of the talent at their disposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s quickest bowler, Mark Wood, played one pink-ball Test on the last Ashes tour four years ago and took nine wickets in the match, proving a menace throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He isn&#8217;t available this week, but England will still have Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson and Brydon Carse &#8211; all capable of bowling over 90mph &#8211; in their XI, while captain Ben Stokes can exceed 85mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eye-catching display in Australia&#8217;s first innings was the most sustained spell of &#8216;fast&#8217; bowling I&#8217;ve seen from an England attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were former Australia internationals remarking how impressed they were by England&#8217;s bowling, and writers sharpening their knives for an evisceration of the home team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the England bowlers can find the same hostility, pace and skill in Brisbane, there is no doubt they can cause Australia big problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Can England go toe-to-toe with Starc? If he recaptures the rhythm and confidence he showed in Perth, he could be Australia&#8217;s match-winner once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He must go to bed dreaming of bowling with a pink ball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/crk7nkvd2z8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is still hope for England. After four sessions of the first Test, they were 99 runs ahead with nine second-innings wickets remaining. The capitulation that happened from that point will leave a sour taste in everyone&#8217;s mouths, none more so than the players. However, given the pink ball seems harder to see and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36055,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053\/revisions\/36055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}