{"id":123822,"date":"2025-11-08T01:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123822\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:23:11","slug":"ferntree-gully-cricket-club-names-17yo-ben-austin-as-12th-man-during-memorial-round-in-his-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123822\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferntree Gully Cricket Club names 17yo Ben Austin as 12th man during memorial round in his honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThank you, it looks amazing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur coach Josh Henry had a few quick words before we all walked over to the nets to gather in a circle with a minute\u2019s silence to remember Ben. It was really lovely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe boys then started training \u2013 well done to you all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">Cricket Victoria cancelled matches across the state last week and will resume this weekend for the Ben Austin Memorial Round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">The sporting association invited clubs and associations to wear black armbands and observe a minute\u2019s silence before games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThank you, it looks amazing. \u201cOur coach Josh Henry had a few quick words before we all walked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[53186,86453,806,68200,15361,18836,16558,2837,86452,30185,293,7568,78,4507,5158,19872,10136,21409,111,139,69,9617,18833,5843,213,4412,1961,4767],"class_list":["post-123822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-12th","tag-17yo","tag-as","tag-austin","tag-ben","tag-club","tag-cricket","tag-during","tag-ferntree","tag-gully","tag-his","tag-honour","tag-in","tag-late","tag-man","tag-memorial","tag-named","tag-names","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-player","tag-round","tag-senior","tag-sports","tag-teams","tag-this","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}