{"id":532437,"date":"2026-03-11T03:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:44:14","slug":"fire-set-for-must-win-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532437\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Set For Must Win Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">Australian allrounder Grace Harris will return for the Queensland Fire this week for a pair of must-win games as they chase a spot in the Women\u2019s National Cricket League Final.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, who played in the T20 leg of Australia\u2019s recently completed multi-format series win over India, was named today in Queensland\u2019s 13-player squad for the matches against Victoria at Allan Border Field.<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet tomorrow and Saturday from 9.30am each day, with admission free.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was overlooked by selectors on Monday for the West Indian T20 and ODI series later this month, although remains firmly in contention for the ICC T20 World Cup in England in June.<\/p>\n<p>Her Queensland teammates Georgia Voll and Lucy Hamlton will leave later this week for Australia\u2019s tour, with left-arm pace bowler Hamilton a chance to complete a trifecta of international debuts on the T20 leg of the tour following ODI and Test debuts against India this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire are locked in a three-way tussle to make the WNCL Final against NSW for the second season in a row, with the decider already locked in for Sydney on Saturday 21 March.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland and South Australia, which play the Breakers in Adelaide, are both on 27 points with the Fire leading on Net Run Rate.<\/p>\n<p>Western Australia is a point behind and host the ACT Meteors in Perth for their remaining two games.<\/p>\n<p>The WNCL action can be followed online at cricket.com.au and via the CricketLive app.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s National Cricket League<br \/>Queensland Fire v Victoria<br \/>Allan Border Field<br \/>Tomorrow, Saturday<br \/>9.30am start<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Redmayne (c)<br \/>Charli Knott (v-c)<br \/>Bonnie Berry<br \/>Lucy Bourke<br \/>Sianna Ginger<br \/>Nicola Hancock<br \/>Grace Harris<br \/>Jess Jonassen<br \/>Annie O&#8217;Neil<br \/>Grace Parsons<br \/>Ruby Strange<br \/>Lauren Winfield-Hill<br \/>Mikayla Wrigley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian allrounder Grace Harris will return for the Queensland Fire this week for a pair of must-win games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-532437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532437","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=532437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}