Australia recall Marnus Labuschagne and include Jake Weatherald for Ashes opener | Eastern Daily Press<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n Weatherald was not the only notable player for the club last year. Former England spinner Monty Panesar – an Ashes winner in 2009 and 2010-11 – also turned out for Great Witchingham.\n<\/p>\n
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England cricket player Monty Panesar also played for Great Witchingham Cricket Club (Image: Anthony Devlin\/PA)\n<\/p>\n
\n The Australian’s route to Test cricket has been an unusual one. He arrived in Great Witchingham two years after a productive season with Barnsley Woolley Miners CC, in Yorkshire.\n<\/p>\n
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31-year-old Weatherald is originally from Tasmania (Image: Robbie Stephenson)\n<\/p>\n
\n James Hale, the Great Witchingham captain, told BBC Sport Weatherald had impressed in Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He fitted in really well. At that point in time it was a good moment in his life as he’d just got married in Italy. Almost straight from the wedding he flew over to join us in England,” he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He wanted to enjoy his cricket with a bit of the pressure off and he was great, always a life-and-soul-of-the-changing-room kind of guy, a lot of the laughs and the banter would revolve around Jake and what he was up to – he’s one of those big energy characters.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Weatherald was Australia’s top scorer on the second day of the match, with a lightning 72 off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-300800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}