{"id":446666,"date":"2026-01-30T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446666\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:07:11","slug":"a-maiden-t20-title-for-mcc-womens-first-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446666\/","title":{"rendered":"A maiden T20 title for MCC Women\u2019s First XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive victory against Essendon Maribyrnong Park has seen the MCC cricket section celebrate its first title of the 2025\/26 season, with the Women\u2019s First XI securing a maiden T20 title.<\/p>\n<p>After restricting the opposition to 7\/135, a superb innings from Amy Yates with 71 from 54 deliveries helped steer the MCC side to a memorable victory, along with impressive efforts from Hasrat Gill, Erika Quinn and Rhi O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<p>Yates\u2019 innings included 10 fours and 2 sixes to earn her Player of the Match honours, with the side claiming its first T20 title after falling short in seasons 2015\/16 and 2017\/18.<\/p>\n<p>The Melbourne Cricket Club congratulates the Women\u2019s First XI on becoming Premiers in this format.<\/p>\n<p>MCC Cricket Section<\/p>\n<p>The MCC currently fields teams in the various grades of Cricket Victoria\u2019s Premier Cricket competition (men\u2019s and women\u2019s) and in the MCC Club XI Competition. Social cricket by an MCC group known as the XXIX Club is played mid-week and on Sundays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A comprehensive victory against Essendon Maribyrnong Park has seen the MCC cricket section celebrate its first title of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-446666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446666","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=446666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}