{"id":177604,"date":"2025-10-03T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177604\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:47:29","slug":"asa-tribe-and-ben-kellaway-glamorgans-best-chances-of-england-cricketers-in-20-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177604\/","title":{"rendered":"Asa Tribe and Ben Kellaway: Glamorgan&#8217;s best chances of England cricketers in 20 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After starting the season outside Glamorgan&#8217;s first team, Tribe seized an opportunity to open the batting and has not looked back, scoring 731 County Championship runs at an average of 45.68.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought there would be some growth after a hard winter, but I didn&#8217;t think the numbers would be as good as they&#8217;ve been,&#8221; Tribe told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the One-Day Cup it was 401 runs at an average of 80.20, not bad for someone who hadn&#8217;t played cricket outside of Jersey until the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old speaks fondly about his early years growing up in Jersey but says he &#8220;was ready to flee the nest&#8221;. Tribe credits the move to Cardiff for allowing him to turn childhood dreams into reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I always felt that if I was going to take my cricket forward, I couldn&#8217;t do that on the Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I come from an environment where (making it as a professional cricketer), it wasn&#8217;t even talked about and if you did mention it the attitude would be &#8216;you&#8217;re from Jersey those things don&#8217;t happen over here&#8217;.&#8217;Coming over here made me believe,&#8221; says the batter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After starting the season outside Glamorgan&#8217;s first team, Tribe seized an opportunity to open the batting and has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-177604","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\/177604","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=177604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}