{"id":814311,"date":"2026-07-21T12:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814311\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:08:16","slug":"dont-feed-the-dog-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-issues-toto-warning-as-he-hosts-star-studded-charity-cricket-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814311\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Don’t feed the dog’: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese issues Toto warning as he hosts star-studded charity cricket match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Albanese has been defeated at a charity cricket match on the iconic lawns of Kirribilli House.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister welcomed a host of big names for Nova’s annual sporting event – Fitzy, Wippa and Kate’s Backyard Cricket.<\/p>\n

Mr Albanese kicked off the match by issuing a warning about his dog Toto.<\/p>\n

“Can I make this point really early on. If everyone here gives Toto a little bit of sausage, there’s going to be a problem,” he joked.<\/p>\n

“Don’t feed the dog.”<\/p>\n

Mr Albanese, Susie O’Neill, James Bracey, Julia Morris, Richard Wilkins, Allison Langdon, Dr Andrew Rochford, Mick Ennis and two young cricketers Patrick and Declan were on Fitzy’s team.<\/p>\n

While joining Wippa’s team was Kate Ritchie, Jim Jefferies, Matt ‘Shirvo’ Shirvington, Amy Shark, Ben Fordham, Michael Hooper, James Tedesco and young cricketers Jamie and Summa.<\/p>\n

The four young listeners won their places on the teams through a promotion with MILO.<\/p>\n

\"Albanese<\/p>\n

The event raised $10,000 for two charities: Full Stop Australia, one of Australia\u2019s leading sexual, domestic and family violence response and recovery services, and Batyr Australia, which works to create stigma-free communities that champion youth mental health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n

As he welcomed guests, Mr Albanese said: \u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic day for good charities. A good opportunity to have fun for the right reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nova 106.9 co-host and Olympian O\u2019Neill opened the batting before being dismissed by comedian Jefferies, while Morris suffered an early setback after forgetting to run.<\/p>\n

Young Nova listener Jamie produced one of the plays of the day, bowling out former NRL star Ennis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ritchie pulled off a diving stumping behind the wicket before opening the batting and launching a six straight into Sydney Harbour.<\/p>\n

The match ended with Wippa\u2019s\u00a0XI lifting the Backyard Cricket trophy, with Ritchie emerging as the unlikely cricketing star of the day.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the match, Fitzy said: \u201cForget Bazball, this is Hazbeenball.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn eclectic mix of celebrities who can\u2019t play cricket at the hallowed turf of Kirribilli House. It\u2019s my favourite day of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wippa added: \u201cThere\u2019s no greater backyard for a game of cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there\u2019s no greater list of celebrities that have no idea how to play cricket. That\u2019s what makes this day the most entertaining on the calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese has been defeated at a charity cricket match on the iconic lawns of Kirribilli House. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[2324,64,63,10881,740,230767,17303,389140,389139,85,389138],"class_list":["post-814311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charity","tag-cricket","tag-fitzy","tag-nova","tag-nova-backyard-cricket","tag-nova-backyard-cricket-2026","tag-sports","tag-wippa-kates-backyard-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814311","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=814311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}