{"id":5168,"date":"2023-01-09T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T07:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=270174"},"modified":"2023-01-09T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T07:41:48","slug":"australias-oldest-living-test-cricketer-norma-johnston-dies-aged-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australias-oldest-living-test-cricketer-norma-johnston-dies-aged-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s oldest living test cricketer Norma Johnston dies aged 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest living Test cricketer from Australia, Norma Johnston (n\u00e9e Whiteman), passed away at the age of 95. In addition to playing domestic cricket for New South Wales during her playing days, Norma, a fast bowler, participated in seven Test matches between 1948 and 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Norma was a middle-order batswoman and medium-pace bowler who is remembered as an important and well-liked member of the post-war Australian Women\u2019s team. She scored 151 Test runs at 25.16 and took 22 wickets at 17.26.<\/p>\n<p>One of those who paid tribute to Johnston was Cummins, the Australian men\u2019s Test captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">\u201cNorma was a pioneer of the women\u2019s game and until her death was Australia\u2019s oldest Test cricketer,\u201d Cummins tweeted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">\u201cShe was passionate about cricket, about her hometown of Bathurst and the many women who would follow in her footsteps representing their state and country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This morning I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Norma Johnston.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Norma was a pioneer of the women\u2019s game and until her death was Australia\u2019s oldest Test cricketer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pat Cummins (@patcummins30) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patcummins30\/status\/1612267224844337153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest living Test cricketer from Australia, Norma Johnston (n\u00e9e Whiteman), passed away at the age of 95. In addition\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3059,3431,3367],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-aus","tag-australia","tag-australia-women"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}