{"id":53819,"date":"2021-04-04T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=53819"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T13:00:41","slug":"young-aussie-hopeful-posts-key-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=53819","title":{"rendered":"Young Aussie hopeful posts key century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Blues have one foot in the Sheffield Shield final after Jason Sangha&#x27;s first century in two years.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was on 81 not out after day one, and went on with the job on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He was eventually dismissed for 103 as the Blues posted a first-innings total of 381 for the Queensland Bulls to chase.<\/p>\n<p>It was a much-needed tonic for New South Wales after they were embarrassed by Tasmania in their last match, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/sheffield-shield-scores-results-draw-2021-new-south-wales-blues\/5e498c06-7cda-48d2-b066-b39352147cc3\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"being rolled for 32 in the first innings\">being rolled for 32 in the first innings<\/a> and losing by 298 runs.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"dff6ecf7-cd46-4d6f-ad05-4d1061b38266\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/dff6ecf7-cd46-4d6f-ad05-4d1061b38266\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"2837\" data-height=\"1891\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the last round of fixtures before the Sheffield Shield final, and the Blues need to win to be sure of having a chance to defend their title.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland and NSW currently occupy the top two spots, and whoever wins will host the decider on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>If this match ends in a draw WA, who are playing Tasmania, could overtake both sides &#8211; a result which would see the Blues likely miss out on the final.<\/p>\n<p>In good news for both of these teams, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/sheffield-shield-2020-21-1233442\/western-australia-vs-tasmania-24th-match-1251085\/full-scorecard\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Tasmania are still batting well into day two thanks to big scores from Matthew Wade and Jake Doran\">Tasmania are still batting well into day two thanks to big scores from Matthew Wade and Jake Doran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The NSW Blues have one foot in the Sheffield Shield final after Jason Sangha&#x27;s first century in two years. The 21-year-old was on 81 not <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=53819\" title=\"Young Aussie hopeful posts key century\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53821,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53819\/revisions\/53821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}