{"id":551544,"date":"2026-03-19T23:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:16:17","slug":"wallan-cricket-premiers-midland-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551544\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallan cricket premiers | Midland Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Women-1-crop.jpg\" data-caption=\"Wallan Cricket Club president Rob Fowler and Gisborne Cricket Club president Greg Hall enjoy the sunshine and the game at the Women&#039;s A-grade final.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"477\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Women-1-crop-696x477.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Women 1 crop\"\/><\/a>Wallan Cricket Club president Rob Fowler and Gisborne Cricket Club president Greg Hall enjoy the sunshine and the game at the Women&#8217;s A-grade final.            <\/p>\n<p>In an extremely close Kookaburra A-grade women\u2019s grand final on Sunday, Wallan defeated the well-credentialled Gisborne lineup with 10 balls to spare, at Greenhill Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Gisborne captain Brianna Woodburn top scored with 61, and Emily McDonald made 29, in a total tally of 133 (30 overs).<\/p>\n<p>Megan Farrell claimed 4\u201318, and Terrie Haydon 3\u201317.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell starred with an unbeaten 63 not out and was Player of the Match.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Laity 30 and Kia Montgomery 15 lent support, and the Magpies finished at 6\/134 in 28.2 overs.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald captured 4\u201320.<\/p>\n<p>It was a historic premiership for Wallan in the GDCA.<\/p>\n<p>Melton Centrals won the B-grade flag against Lancefield Yellow by taking control with 3\/171 in 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Belinda Guiney 52 ret., Rhiannah Jordan 41, Katrina Huenig 27 \u2014 Destinee-Jayde Murtatto 2\u201325.<\/p>\n<p>Lancefield replied with 1\/125 (Emily Consiglio 50 ret., Molly Consiglio 27 not out, Megan Richardt 23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallan Cricket Club president Rob Fowler and Gisborne Cricket Club president Greg Hall enjoy the sunshine and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-551544","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\/551544","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=551544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}