{"id":699674,"date":"2026-05-28T08:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699674\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:49:19","slug":"purnell-cricket-club-turns-100-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699674\/","title":{"rendered":"Purnell Cricket Club turns 100 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The print hit harder times in the coming decades.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decline was overseen by media mogul Robert Maxwell, who apparently landed his helicopter on the Purnell cricket pitch when he bought the company in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suffering from what it described as a combination of under investment in new technology and increasingly stiff foreign competition, the print works finally closed in 2005, with the loss of 400 jobs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cricket club &#8211; which kept its name &#8211; kept going, just.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t think we were going to make 100,&#8221; said chairman Harvey Burgess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had a big meeting where the club seriously could have folded, but we fought back and the next season we got promotion into the division that we play in today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We&#8217;re on the up now, which is good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The print hit harder times in the coming decades. The decline was overseen by media mogul Robert Maxwell,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-699674","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\/699674","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=699674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}