{"id":937904,"date":"2026-10-23T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937904\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:24:09","slug":"mick-walker-marks-400-games-as-yackandandah-cricket-stalwart-the-border-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937904\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Walker marks 400 games as Yackandandah cricket stalwart. | The Border Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">&#8220;It was difficult to ever get the ball out of his hands,&#8221; Lockett said. &#8220;I said to him one day, &#8216;I am taking you off, I&#8217;ve had enough, you&#8217;re bowling no good&#8217;. He said, &#8216;watch this, I&#8217;ll have this bloke, he&#8217;ll leave it and I&#8217;ll knock his stumps out of the ground&#8217;. He told me to get knicked and three balls later, the blokes leaves it and Mick cartwheels his stumps, turns around and points at me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was difficult to ever get the ball out of his hands,&#8221; Lockett said. &#8220;I said to him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-937904","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\/937904","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=937904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}