{"id":23618,"date":"2025-12-19T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ashes-2025-26-when-is-the-fourth-test-and-what-are-the-session-times\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:37:02","slug":"ashes-2025-26-when-is-the-fourth-test-and-what-are-the-session-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ashes-2025-26-when-is-the-fourth-test-and-what-are-the-session-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 2025-26: When is the fourth test and what are the session times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The fourth Test of the 2025-26 Ashes series takes place in Melbourne and starts on Friday, 26 December.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play will start at 10:00 local time, which is 23:30 GMT on Christmas Day in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The traditional Boxing Day match is scheduled to start six days after the conclusion of the third Test in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is an annual tradition to host a Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Boxing Day, dating back to the first between Australia and West Indies in 1968.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eleven Ashes Tests have been held at the MCG since 1974, with Australia winning five, England four and two draws taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alastair Cook famously hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/42499970\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">244 not out in 2017<\/a> &#8211; the highest score by a visiting batter at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final match of the series will take place in Sydney in January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/crrk1yqggr8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth Test of the 2025-26 Ashes series takes place in Melbourne and starts on Friday, 26 December. Play will start at 10:00 local time, which is 23:30 GMT on Christmas Day in the United Kingdom. The traditional Boxing Day match is scheduled to start six days after the conclusion of the third Test in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23620,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions\/23620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}