{"id":132913,"date":"2025-09-12T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132913\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:32:09","slug":"in-pictures-cricketers-play-bramble-bank-match-in-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132913\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: cricketers play Bramble Bank Match in the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An annual cricket match in the sea, which sees teams arrive by boat, has taken place off the coast of the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of the Royal Southern Yacht Club from Hamble-le-Rice and the Island Sailing Club in Cowes took part in the Bramble Cricket Match on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teams play on Bramble Bank, a triangular sandbar in the middle of the Solent, which is only revealed at low tides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tradition started in 1984 and the game only ends when the tide starts to come in and the pitch disappears under the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An annual cricket match in the sea, which sees teams arrive by boat, has taken place off the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-132913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}