{"id":195028,"date":"2025-10-12T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195028\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:51:09","slug":"ickleton-cricket-club-calls-for-more-female-players-to-join-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195028\/","title":{"rendered":"Ickleton Cricket Club calls for more female players to join teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than \u00a329,000 had been donated so far and the club said it was looking for ways to gather the last \u00a36,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edmund Harcourt, the chair of the cricket club, said a sponsored run to complete 3,000 laps of the cricket square will take place on Sunday and a Race Night at Ickleton Village Hall is being held on 22 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cricket is such an important part of village life and Ickleton is no exception,&#8221; Mr Harcourt said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;d love to expand the number of young people, especially girls, who want to enjoy the physical and social benefits of cricket and develop a life-long love of sport, as well as more women from neighbouring villages who don&#8217;t yet have a women&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The new two-lane, England and Wales Cricket Board-quality practice nets will be free and open all year round for the whole village to use,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than \u00a329,000 had been donated so far and the club said it was looking for ways to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-195028","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\/195028","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=195028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}