{"id":782991,"date":"2026-07-06T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782991\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:41:14","slug":"watch-loose-bull-interrupts-cricket-match-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782991\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Loose bull interrupts cricket match in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 6 (UPI) &#8212; A cricket match in Newcastle, England, was called off when an escaped bull wandered onto the field and charged at players.<\/p>\n<p>The bull entered the pitch on Saturday at Burnopfield Cricket Club<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunderlandecho.com\/news\/people\/young-bull-stops-play-as-cricket-players-run-for-safety-8779760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> during a game against<\/a> Hetton Lyons Cricket Club.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaYJVZyAiEB\/?img_index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Video shared by<\/a> Hetton Lyons Cricket Club shows the bull charging at players and an umpire.<\/p>\n<p>The bull, which had<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/bulletin\/news\/newcastle-runaway-bull-cricket-pitch-b3009244.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> escaped from a nearby farm<\/a>, evaded attempts to clear it from the grass. The animal&#8217;s owner brought a cow to the scene in an attempt to calm the agitated animal, but it was not enticed.<\/p>\n<p>The match ended up being called off when the bull refused to budge.<\/p>\n<p>Durham Constabulary confirmed the bull wad eventually returned to its enclosure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 6 (UPI) &#8212; A cricket match in Newcastle, England, was called off when an escaped bull wandered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[1313,64,63,740,21184,43835,85,43836],"class_list":["post-782991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-animals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-sports","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782991","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=782991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}