{"id":438942,"date":"2025-01-28T00:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=438942"},"modified":"2025-01-28T04:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T04:13:05","slug":"star-admits-ashes-whitewash-motivating-aussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=438942","title":{"rendered":"Star admits Ashes 'whitewash' motivating Aussies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\ufeffustralia will be looking to secure a rare Ashes<\/a> whitewash when they take the field for a day-night Test at the MCG on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Since the introduction of a multi-format series in 2013, neither team \ufeffhave managed to go through without dropping a game at some stage.<\/p>\n

However, through the six ODI and T20 matches thus far, Australia have won all of them in rather convincing fashion, placing a heap of pressure on England<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to media \ufeffahead of the red-ball fixture, injured star Sophie Molineux<\/a> admitted the squad had their sights set on going 7-0 against their bitter rivals.<\/p>\n

"The idea of a whitewash against England is really appealing to the girls," she said.<\/p>\n

"Especially after the first six games and how dominant they've been. Knowing that Australian squad, they are gonna want to finish it off really strongly.<\/p>\n

"I do think the girls are firing and do want to walk away whitewashing the English."\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ash Gardner and Alyssa Healy are both under an injury cloud for the historic clash, which will mark the first time a women's Test will be played at the MCG \ufeffin over 75 years.<\/p>\n

Both players missed the final T20 due to injury, but are expected to be fit on Thursday.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\ufeffustralia will be looking to secure a rare Ashes whitewash when they take the field for a day-night Test at the MCG on Thursday. Since […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438945,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438942\/revisions\/438945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/438944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}