{"id":142787,"date":"2025-09-17T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142787\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:33:07","slug":"luton-cricketers-excited-by-dome-plan-but-want-access-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142787\/","title":{"rendered":"Luton cricketers &#8216;excited&#8217; by dome plan but want access to it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of a cricket club said they were excited about plans for an indoor cricket dome in their town but wanted to be sure they would be given access to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/czer2z9k58zo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced last month<\/a> that it was spending \u00a31.5m on domes in Luton and Lancashire to &#8220;grow the game in areas of need and boost women and girls&#8217; cricket ahead of 2026 Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sports minister Stephanie Peacock visited the Luton Women&#8217;s and Girls&#8217; Cricket Club (LWGCC) on Monday to talk to its players about the plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One cricketer said she hoped access to the dome would be available at times that were suitable to the needs of women from different communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of a cricket club said they were excited about plans for an indoor cricket dome in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-142787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142787","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=142787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}