{"id":369088,"date":"2026-01-14T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369088\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:48:08","slug":"essex-county-cricket-club-celebrates-150th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369088\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex County Cricket Club celebrates 150th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex County Cricket Club will mark its 150th birthday by visiting the grand Georgian building where it was formed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A service will be held at Chelmsford Cathedral before up to 300 guests head to Shire Hall on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club was born in 1876 as a result of a meeting chaired at the venue by then-East Essex MP James Round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has since produced some of the game&#8217;s great names, including Sir Alastair Cook, Graham Gooch and Graham Napier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essex County Cricket Club will mark its 150th birthday by visiting the grand Georgian building where it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-369088","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\/369088","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=369088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}