{"id":669286,"date":"2026-05-14T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669286\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:15:08","slug":"former-local-cricketer-to-open-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669286\/","title":{"rendered":"Former local cricketer to open for England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Bell Post Hill cricketer is set to take guard as the new opener for the English cricket team.<\/p>\n<p>Emilio Gay named in England\u2019s squad for the upcoming England series against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Gay taking the place of Zak Crawley who has been dropped after a horror Ashes series in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after this ad<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Gay debuted for Bell Post Hill as an overseas professional back in the 2019\/20 season, starring for the side making 333 runs at 47.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to play for Geelong Cricket Club in Victorian Premier Cricket, debuting in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s since starred for Northamptonshire and Durham in country cricket, and the England A side.<\/p>\n<p>He previously played three T20I matches for Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Bell Post Hill cricketer is set to take guard as the new opener for the English&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-669286","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\/669286","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=669286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}