{"id":537431,"date":"2026-04-18T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537431\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:11:09","slug":"new-competition-catalyst-for-cricket-in-souths-state-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537431\/","title":{"rendered":"New competition &#8216;catalyst&#8217; for cricket in south&#8217;s state schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Oxfordshire, 15 schools from across the county have entered the competition alongside 12 from neighbouring Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unsurprisingly on the south coast, 22 schools from first-class county Hampshire have entered, and will be joined by nine from Dorset and five from the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They make up just a small section of the 750 schools across England and Wales taking part in the cup&#8217;s inaugural edition, with more than a thousand teams taking part across the boys and girls competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whilst of course anyone that enters the competition wants to win it, let&#8217;s be clear, this is about much more than that,&#8221; former England and Middlesex batter Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;The more people that finish this competition with a love of cricket, that&#8217;s how we should measure its success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Oxfordshire, 15 schools from across the county have entered the competition alongside 12 from neighbouring Berkshire. Unsurprisingly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-537431","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\/537431","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=537431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}