{"id":3069,"date":"2025-07-18T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3069\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:13:09","slug":"funeral-of-cricket-legend-syd-lawrence-to-take-place-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3069\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral of cricket legend Syd Lawrence to take place in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief look at David ‘Syd’ Lawrence MBE’s careerpublished at 12:46 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

12:46 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Sammy Jenkins
BBC News, Live page reporter<\/p>\n

\"EnglandImage source, PA Media<\/p>\n

David ‘Syd’ Lawrence, was the first British-born black cricketer to represent England. <\/p>\n

Hailing from Gloucester, the man, affectionately known as ‘Syd’ after the British bandleader, external<\/a>, made his first-class debut for his home county in 1981.<\/p>\n

He would later take 625 wickets in 280 matches during his 16-year-career.<\/p>\n

He also played five Test matches for England, his first, where he took three wickets against Sri Lanka at Lord’s in 1988.<\/p>\n

Capable of reaching extreme pace, he did not play again for England until 1991 when he took 14 wickets across three Tests and played his sole one-day international the same summer.<\/p>\n

His career was later curtailed by a serious knee injury which he suffered while playing for England in New Zealand in 1992.<\/p>\n

He did return to his beloved sport, playing four times in the County Championship in 1997, but he did not play again in top-level cricket afterwards.<\/p>\n

After retirement he became a nightclub owner and amateur bodybuilder before being named Gloucestershire’s club president in 2022, a role he remained in until his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brief look at David ‘Syd’ Lawrence MBE’s careerpublished at 12:46 British Summer Time 12:46 BST Sammy JenkinsBBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-3069","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\/3069","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=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}