{"id":456443,"date":"2026-02-03T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456443\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:15:07","slug":"vale-barry-bates-cricket-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456443\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale Barry Bates | Cricket NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NSW cricket community is saddened by the passing of NSW First Class player 512, Barry Bates, aged 86.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A right arm fast medium bowler, Bates played 10 First Class matches for NSW between 1959 and 1961, claiming 26 wickets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His best figures for the state came against Queensland at the SCG on New Years Day, 1960, taking 4-50.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bates\u2019 finest representative effort came for an Illawarra XII against the NSW Sheffield Shield team in November, 1960. His 6-65 included the prized wickets of five Test players \u2013 Ian Craig, Neil Harvey, Norm O\u2019Neill, Grahame Thomas and Alan Davidson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cricket NSW extends its condolences to Barry\u2019s family and friends at this difficult time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NSW cricket community is saddened by the passing of NSW First Class player 512, Barry Bates, aged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-456443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456443","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=456443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}