{"id":880818,"date":"2026-09-05T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880818\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:38:10","slug":"sedgwick-cricket-clubs-curveball-wins-tea-deal-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880818\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedgwick Cricket club&#8217;s &#8216;curveball&#8217; wins tea deal donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;curveball idea&#8221; by a cricket club has led to a donation from a baronet in exchange for two cups of tea per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sedgwick Cricket Club has been fundraising to buy an acre of land to establish a full cricket oval on its current ground off Back Lane in Sedgwick, south of Kendal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Adam Kershaw said they were inspired to write to Sir Humphry Wakefield as they already had on display an old letter from him talking about a &#8220;great game&#8221; played in Sedgwick by legendary cricketer WG Grace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To the club&#8217;s surprise, Sir Wakefield wrote them &#8220;a lovely cheque for \u00a32,000, in exchange for two cups of tea per season&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kershaw said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got a letter up in the club house from Sir Humphry Wakefield, dated from about 25 years ago, which talked about one of the great games that happened in Sedgwick where WG Grace was playing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the past few centuries, the baronet&#8217;s family partly-owned Sedgwick House, which was split up into apartments, Kershaw said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The family has been in and around Kendal for years and years,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our former team captain had a curveball idea and suggested we should get in touch with Sir Humphry and see if he was willing to donate anything,&#8221; Kershaw said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;curveball idea&#8221; by a cricket club has led to a donation from a baronet in exchange for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-880818","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\/880818","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=880818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}