{"id":418369,"date":"2026-01-17T04:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418369\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:44:10","slug":"confidence-growing-as-aussies-defy-tricky-ireland-challenge-icc-under-19-cricket-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418369\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidence growing as Aussies defy tricky Ireland challenge | ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queenslander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/u19-cricket-worldcup-2026\/teams\/1154\/players\/126371\/steven-hogan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steven Hogan<\/a> earned Player of the Match honours by going large with a ton that anchored Australia&#8217;s chase, scoring 115 from 110 balls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Hogan) is an absolute star,&#8221; Peake continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(He) makes runs wherever he goes and I&#8217;m very proud of him. He absolutely loves the game and works really hard, so it&#8217;s very well deserved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hogan credited the platform laid by his openers Will Malajczuk (22 off 12) and Nitesh Samuel (77* off 101), who blasted 30 runs inside the first three overs to help settle some of Australia&#8217;s nervous energy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty easy to bat after (Malajczuk) hits a few sixes &#8230; makes it easier on everyone else,&#8221; he said post-game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queenslander Steven Hogan earned Player of the Match honours by going large with a ton that anchored Australia&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95830,95836,214643,95841,214639,95853,95852,7301,214640,95851,214637,214647,95834,161130,90626,85,103412,214636,214642,214644,214646,214641,214645,214635,214638],"class_list":["post-418369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-live-score","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-world-cup-2026","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-news","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-icc-under-19-world-cup","tag-icc-youth-tournaments","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-junior-cricket","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-sports","tag-today-cricket-match-score","tag-u19-cricket-world-cup-2026","tag-u19-live-score-today","tag-under-19-cricket-fixtures","tag-under-19-cricket-highlights","tag-under-19-cricket-live-score","tag-under-19-cricket-results","tag-under-19-cricket-world-cup","tag-youth-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418369","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=418369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}