{"id":552871,"date":"2026-03-20T13:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552871\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:25:12","slug":"grace-wetherall-jersey-all-rounder-excited-by-lords-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552871\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Wetherall: Jersey all-rounder excited by Lord&#8217;s opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey all-rounder Grace Wetherall says it is &#8220;amazing&#8221; to have been picked for a Women&#8217;s Europe side to play at Lord&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old will play against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at the home of cricket on 17 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The European team is made up of players from associate nations teams across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember getting the phone call and I just couldn&#8217;t even believe it,&#8221; she told BBC Radio Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even know my name had been put forward so being able to have the opportunity to play at Lord&#8217;s, the home of England cricket is going to be like a unreal experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always dreamed of walking down the stairs into the pavilion and everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just an amazing ground and being able to experience that, walking onto the pitch with a whole bunch of fantastic cricketers, it&#8217;s just going to be amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey all-rounder Grace Wetherall says it is &#8220;amazing&#8221; to have been picked for a Women&#8217;s Europe side to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-552871","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\/552871","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=552871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}