{"id":500084,"date":"2026-03-28T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500084\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:53:07","slug":"goatacre-cricket-club-members-take-on-bowling-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500084\/","title":{"rendered":"Goatacre cricket club members take on bowling challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A cricket club that has become &#8220;increasingly more expensive to run&#8221; has organised a mammoth fundraiser to raise funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of Goatacre Cricket Club, near Calne in Wiltshire, are attempting to bowl the equivalent of the 93.1 mile distance to Lord&#8217;s cricket ground in London &#8211; a total of 7,304 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the bowling challenge takes place on Saturday, three players will cycle to Goatacre from the Grace Gates at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a very expensive operation running a cricket club of our size,&#8221; said chairman John Wilkins. &#8220;Our funds have been depleting over the last five or six years to the stage where we need to do something.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cricket club that has become &#8220;increasingly more expensive to run&#8221; has organised a mammoth fundraiser to raise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-500084","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\/500084","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=500084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}