{"id":247567,"date":"2025-10-29T01:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247567\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:28:09","slug":"boy-17-fighting-for-life-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247567\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 17, fighting for life in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young cricketer is fighting for his life in a Melbourne hospital after he was critically injured during a pre-game warm-up in the city\u2019s outer-east.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Wally Tew Reserve in Ferntree Gully at 4.45pm on Tuesday after the 17-year-old boy was injured in the training nets. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The incident occurred at Wally Tew Reserve in Ferntree Gully on Tuesday night.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0dfa08f86557a220fe0cabe6f05a8a86a8950fcb091dcdebc74b327b32d48aa7.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at Wally Tew Reserve in Ferntree Gully on Tuesday night.Credit: Google Maps Street view<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was assessed and treated by specialised paramedics and then rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA teenage male has been transported by road ambulance to Monash Medical Centre Clayton in a critical condition,\u201d an Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The match was part of a Twenty20 tournament run by the Ringwood and District Cricket Association, according to the Ferntree Gully Cricket Club Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Association chair Michael Finn said he was aware of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently our thoughts and prayers are with the family,\u201d Finn said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re committed to providing whatever support we need to for the clubs and the officials that were involved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young cricketer is fighting for his life in a Melbourne hospital after he was critically injured during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-247567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247567","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=247567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}