{"id":252786,"date":"2025-10-31T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252786\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:20:07","slug":"worlds-best-20-20-sides-collide-at-mcg-from-7-15pm-results-scores-weather-updates-ben-austin-tribute-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252786\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s best 20\/20 sides collide at MCG from 7.15pm; results, scores, weather updates, Ben Austin tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The devastated father of young cricketer Ben Austin says he would do anything to hear his son\u2019s voice again.<\/p>\n<p>The Austins visited the nets where the 17-year-old\u2019s life was cut short after he was hit in the neck by an accidental full toss while training with a friend on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I would never get back to there, but Benny would have wanted that,\u201d Jace Austin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust wanted to get back to where he last stood and then the sun come through the clouds, and it was beautiful, just what we needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wearing his son\u2019s cap and returning to the Ferntree Gully oval with his bat, Jace Austin said he wanted his boy to be remembered for his passion and love for sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo hear his voice again, I\u2019d do anything, I\u2019d give up anything. Swap places with him, just to hear his voice again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5n6sb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The devastated father of young cricketer Ben Austin says he would do anything to hear his son\u2019s voice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-252786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252786","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=252786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}