A pair of local cricketers are quickly making their mark in the UK, as they trade the Australian winter and footy for the English summer and cricket.<\/p>\n
Wangaratta Magpies CC A graders Cooper Matheson and Tyler Nanson have officially begun their overseas season in England\u2019s Derbyshire and Cheshire Cricket League.<\/p>\n
Matheson plays for New Mills Cricket Club, located roughly 25km south-east of Manchester, while Nanson has joined Chapel-en-le-Frith Cricket Club, just 15 minutes down the road from New Mills.<\/p>\n
The DCCL division one season commenced on Saturday, 18 April \u2013 Mills have enjoyed a strong start to the season with two wins and a cancelled match, sitting third overall, while Chapel are yet to record a win.<\/p>\n
The two clubs recently met in what their clubs dubbed the \u2018Battle of the Aussies\u2019 on 2 May at Chapel-en-le-Frith, with Matheson\u2019s New Mills taking bragging rights after posting 9\/248 from their 45 overs before bowling Chapel out for 131 in 30.3 overs.<\/p>\n
Matheson starred in the match, the wicketkeeper\/batter smashing 60 from 53 balls with four maximums and five boundaries.<\/p>\n
Not to be outdone, Nanson top scored for Chapel with 64 from 49 balls, striking at 130.61 at the top of the order and taking 1\/18 off six overs with the ball.<\/p>\n
The Derbyshire and Cheshire Cricket League season continues this weekend, with Matheson and New Mills at home to Charlesworth and Chisworth CC, while Nanson and Chapel-en-le-Frith head to Mount Pleasant to take on Newton CC, Cheshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of local cricketers are quickly making their mark in the UK, as they trade the Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-655771","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\/655771","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=655771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}