{"id":201053,"date":"2025-10-09T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201053\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:48:10","slug":"nsw-hold-nerve-to-deny-impressive-wa-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201053\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW hold nerve to deny impressive WA chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">NSW posted nearly 300 but were made to work for victory as Western Australia came close<\/p>\n<p>                New South Wales v Western Australia | WNCL<\/p>\n<p>Reigning champions New South Wales have held off a fast-finishing Western Australia by six runs with the visitors threatening to pull off one of the greatest chases in the WNCL&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing NSW&#8217;s 5-298, WA needed 19 runs from the final 12 balls with the set, albeit hobbled, Mikayla Hinkley (57) at the crease alongside impressive rookie Rebecca McGrath (15).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Breakers&#8217; captain Lauren Cheatle bowled herself in the penultimate over and delivered for her side with the wickets of both set batters while conceding only three runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Learoyd punishes errant WA attack to register third WNCL ton<\/p>\n<p>Maddy Darke (73) and Mathilda Carmichael (71) had set the platform for the WA chase, signifying a vast improvement on their batting efforts last season which saw them finish in seventh spot on the WNCL table.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier it was Anika Learoyd&#8217;s third WNCL ton that propelled the hosts up to their imposing total, with the classy No.3 hitting 11 fours in her score of 108.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was well supported by recruit Katie Mack (69) and rising batter Claire Moore (50). The two sides meet again on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW posted nearly 300 but were made to work for victory as Western Australia came close New South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-201053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}