{"id":193313,"date":"2025-10-11T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193313\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:12:08","slug":"teenage-cricketer-inspires-coachs-60-mile-lancashire-charity-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193313\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage cricketer inspires coach&#8217;s 60 mile Lancashire charity run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finn said: &#8220;Paul is an amazing man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a great cricketer and hopefully an even greater runner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Yates, 53, has been Finn&#8217;s cricket mentor since he was seven years old and said it was clear the &#8220;bright and chirpy&#8221; youngster had natural talent from the start. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was inspired by Finn to do the charity run and set up a joint fundraiser for his club&#8217;s new pavilion and the Teenage Cancer Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The coach said about Finn: &#8220;He&#8217;s gone on to excel in all the junior age group teams, played county representative age group cricket, and opened the batting for Shireshead second XI last season,&#8221; the coach said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Yates said Finn was inundated with messages of support from the club, described the way the teenager handled his diagnosis, operations and treatments as &#8220;astonishing&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finn is currently undergoing physiotherapy and occupational health support and hopes to return to play cricket soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has received help from the Teenage Cancer Trust charity which specialises in nursing care and support for young people with cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finn said: &#8220;Paul is an amazing man. &#8220;He&#8217;s a great cricketer and hopefully an even greater runner.&#8221; Mr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-193313","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\/193313","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=193313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}