{"id":484006,"date":"2026-02-16T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484006\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:44:14","slug":"cricket-and-football-clubs-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484006\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket And Football Clubs Collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A T20 cricket match was played between two local clubs on Sunday at the Kilmore Cricket Club and it was followed by an afternoon fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>The Kilmore Cricket Club invites the Football Club to play them on an annual basis for a bit of fun.<\/p>\n<p>The clubs delegates met on the pitch at noon, and the children were not forgotten as face painting and a jumping castle were part of the free entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>A spectator said: \u201cA lot of the [Kilmore Cricket Club] seniors stood back and let the young kids do it. And they did it quite convincingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darcy McNicholas was unbeaten on 50 runs and Stuart Partridge made a whirlwind 44.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Squire captained the cricket side and Leigh Irons for the Kilmore Football Club said: \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I have played; they destroyed us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following a win on the pitch by 70 runs, the club side hosted the Silver Circle Club draw, a chance to turn $25 into $1000.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the clubs major fundraisers and the atmosphere on Sunday was electric as from 3pm onwards OKRFM radio personality and club member, Matt Arnott called the reverse draw.<\/p>\n<p>Its top five lucky winners in 2026 also saw Sam MacBean claim second prize with $300, Brent Sullivan $100, and Reece Miles and Glenn Boyd won $50 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A T20 cricket match was played between two local clubs on Sunday at the Kilmore Cricket Club and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-484006","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\/484006","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=484006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}