Newcastle<\/a> was called off on Saturday evening despite efforts to remove the animal from the ground.<\/p>\nMartin Oswell, director of the Tyneside club, said the young bull, which weighed about 800kg, had escaped from a farm and travelled about a mile to the playing field where it arrived at about 3pm.<\/p>\n
Safety concerns quickly arose as the animal could be seen charging at players and farmers who attempted to recapture it.<\/p>\n
The bull was \u2018spooked\u2019 and dangerous. Photograph: Martin Oswell\/PA<\/p>\n
Police were eventually called to the scene before the bull left \u201cof its own accord\u201d, Oswell said.<\/p>\n
He told the Press Association: \u201cTwo of the farmers tried to stop the bull and it actually hit one of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was OK but I mean the beast probably weighed about 800kg.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a juvenile bull, incredibly fit, athletic \u2013 quite frankly, it was quite dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oswell added: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t get rid of it. There was no chance that the game was going to restart before the cutoff time.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first it was quite novel, it was quite funny \u2013 but we never thought it was going to impact on our game being abandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bull\u2019s owner drove a cow to the cricket club in an effort to entice the animal off the field but to no avail.<\/p>\n
Oswell added: \u201cThe farmer who owns the bull arrived at the ground and tried at first to sort of cajole it and get it into a pen, but it failed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bull was very frightened \u2013 it was spooked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burnopfield CC, who are second in the North East Premier League, had scored 226 runs against opponents Hetton Lyons who were 12 for one when the match was interrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cricket match had to be abandoned after a runaway bull stormed the playing field and charged at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-525608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}