{"id":158246,"date":"2025-09-21T06:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158246\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T06:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:27:15","slug":"foxton-granta-cricketer-pads-up-for-lords-final-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158246\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxton Granta cricketer pads up for Lord’s final hat-trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Farmer and<\/p>\n

Robbie KalusCambridgeshire<\/p>\n

\"EvanEvan Hill<\/p>\n

Foxton Granta batsman Adam Webster is preparing for his third Lord’s appearance<\/p>\n

A 34-year-old accountant is getting set to make a hat-trick of appearances at the home of cricket.<\/p>\n

Weekend cricketer Adam Webster is due to open the batting for Cambridgeshire side Foxton Granta<\/a> when they take on Stayley<\/a>, who are based in Stalybridge, Cheshire, in the national Village Cup final<\/a> at Lord’s<\/a> later.<\/p>\n

Foxton Granta won the Voneus Village Cup in 2024<\/a>, when they beat Gloucestershire side Dumbleton<\/a>, and are making their second trip to north-west London in two years.<\/p>\n

Mr Webster, who lives in Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, also captained Foxton when they were beaten by Woodhouse Grange<\/a>, who are based in Sutton-Upon-Derwent, York, in the 2015 final.<\/p>\n

\"PaulPaul Carroll Photography<\/p>\n

Foxton Granta lifted the National Village Cup in 2024 after beating Gloucestershire side Dumbleton<\/p>\n

Foxton Granta are one of the newest cricket clubs in Cambridgeshire.<\/p>\n

The clubs, whose first team play in the Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Premier League Division<\/a> 1, formed when Foxton Cricket Club and Cambridge Cricket Club merged in 2021.<\/p>\n

Mr Webster said scores of supporters were expected to be at Lord’s.<\/p>\n

He said that most of the same players would be returning for the 2025 final – but said Foxton Granta’s 2025 league form had not been as good as in 2024.<\/p>\n

‘Struggling’<\/p>\n

“We’ve got pretty much the same side as last year,” Webster explained.<\/p>\n

“But we’ve actually been struggling a little bit this season on Saturdays in the league.<\/p>\n

“We’ve finished ninth – last year we finished fourth and we’d think of ourselves as a top-four club.”<\/p>\n

He added: “We’ve done well in the cup on Sundays.<\/p>\n

“I think we’ve actually found it a little bit difficult this year playing on Saturdays and Sundays.”<\/p>\n

\"PAPA Media<\/p>\n

Spectators at Lord’s are more used to watching Test matches than club games<\/p>\n

Mr Webster said he hoped Foxton Granta’s experience of playing on the world’s most famous ground<\/a> would count. <\/p>\n

“Most of the side played last year and this will be my third time at Lord’s,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It is exciting but I think other club players will have played there three times – because other clubs have got to the final more than once.”<\/p>\n

He added: “Stayley play in the Manchester league. We don’t actually know much about them but I expect they’ll be quite strong.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Farmer and Robbie KalusCambridgeshire Evan Hill Foxton Granta batsman Adam Webster is preparing for his third Lord’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-158246","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\/158246","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=158246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}