Among Newton’s career highlights was Essex’s back-to-back county championship titles in 2016 and 2017 – despite predictions they would get related – and he said the Essex Eagles’ T20 Blast triumph in 2019 was “absolutely thrilling”.<\/p>\n
BBC Essex sport editor Victoria Polley said Newton had “brought us all the amazing highs and standout performances”.<\/p>\n
A special hour-long edition of Around the Wicket will be broadcast at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday on BBC Essex.<\/p>\n
The show will look back on his life as a broadcaster, his career as a Latin teacher and learn about his other passion in life – music.<\/p>\n
He has written about 9,000 songs over the past 60 years – and one of them – about Geoffrey Boycott, was used in a BBC documentary documenting the England legend in the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among Newton’s career highlights was Essex’s back-to-back county championship titles in 2016 and 2017 – despite predictions they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-490564","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\/490564","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=490564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}