{"id":301605,"date":"2025-12-06T04:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301605\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:51:09","slug":"phoebe-graham-lancashire-fast-bowler-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301605\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoebe Graham: Lancashire fast bowler announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire fast bowler Phoebe Graham has announced her retirement from professional cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old joined Lancashire from Yorkshire ahead of the 2022 season as one of the club&#8217;s first full-time contracted female players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had been working for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/55395280\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky<\/a> but left her job to become a professional cricketer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graham was part of the Lancashire squad which won the One-Day Cup and the T20 Women&#8217;s County Cup in 2025, and ended her career with 116 wickets in 155 games across List-A and T20 cricket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also played in The Hundred for Manchester Originals and Northern Superchargers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will continue to work with the club on a part-time basis on the girls&#8217; pathway programme while running her own business, Tipnflip, a gender-equality agency looking to drive forward women&#8217;s sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lancashire fast bowler Phoebe Graham has announced her retirement from professional cricket. The 34-year-old joined Lancashire from Yorkshire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-301605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301605","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=301605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}