{"id":156968,"date":"2025-09-24T06:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156968\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T06:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:04:26","slug":"nick-browne-long-serving-essex-batter-to-retire-at-end-of-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156968\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Browne: Long-serving Essex batter to retire at end of 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/essexcricket.org.uk\/2025\/09\/23\/nick-browne-announces-retirement\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a statement,, external<\/a> Browne, who has been with Essex since he was eight, said it had been &#8220;my lifelong dream&#8221; to play for the club and &#8220;had loved every minute of it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am incredibly grateful to all my coaches who have thrown millions of balls at me over the years. They have supported me through so many great days and some average ones,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to say a massive thank you to all of the members and fans of Essex for your unwavering support throughout the years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have played every ball, every session and every day like it is my last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have tried to play with a smile on my face every day and hope I have given you some joy and happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex chief executive officer Dan Feist said Browne was &#8220;the epitome of dedication and professionalism&#8221; whose contributions to the club had been &#8220;remarkable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex must avoid defeat in their final red-ball match against Somerset to avoid the prospect of relegation to the second division next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement,, external Browne, who has been with Essex since he was eight, said it had been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-156968","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\/156968","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=156968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}