{"id":908185,"date":"2026-09-28T05:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/908185\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:10:09","slug":"uncapped-trio-world-cup-champs-headline-breakers-squad-for-wncl-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/908185\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncapped trio, World Cup champs headline Breakers squad for WNCL opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">Three potential debutants feature in the NSW Breakers&#8217; 14-player squad for the opening round of the WNCL season against reigning champions Queensland at Cricket Central.<\/p>\n<p>T20 World Cup champions Phoebe Litchfield, Ash Gardner and Ellyse Perry headline a strong Breakers&#8217; squad for the rematch of last summer&#8217;s WNCL final, while the uncapped trio of\u00a0Tara French, Emma Manix-Geeves and Eva Ragg are a chance of\u00a0making their NSW\u00a0debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sydney\u00a0Cricket Club&#8217;s\u00a0Ragg earns her maiden WNCL call-up from outside the Breakers\u2019 contract list on the back of impressive performances in NSW\u00a0Premier Cricket and during pre-season trial matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Katie Mack, Anika Learoyd, Frankie Nicklin and Tahlia Wilson were unavailable for selection\u00a0as they are currently representing Australia A in India, while Maitlan Brown is still recovering from a hamstring injury\u00a0that ruled her out of the tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NSW Breakers&#8217; One-Day matches against Queensland will commence on Tuesday and Thursday\u00a0at 9.30am AEST. Australian fans can stream the game on cricket.com.au, the CA Live app and Kayo Sports.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spectator guide for those planning to attend can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnsw.com.au\/news\/4579726\/spectator-guide-wncl-nsw-vs-qld-at-cricket-central?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NSW Breakers&#8217; Squad for WNCL matches vs Queensland:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Bates,\u00a0Caoimhe Bray, Erin Burns, Lauren Cheatle (c), Sarah Coyte, Lucy Finn, Tara French, Ash Gardner, Elsa Hunter, Phoebe Litchfield, Emma Manix-Geeves, Claire Moore, Ellyse Perry (vc), Eva Ragg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three potential debutants feature in the NSW Breakers&#8217; 14-player squad for the opening round of the WNCL season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-908185","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\/908185","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=908185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}