{"id":546245,"date":"2026-04-23T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546245\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:46:11","slug":"new-aldborough-cricket-club-ladies-team-to-play-first-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546245\/","title":{"rendered":"New Aldborough Cricket Club ladies&#8217; team to play first match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  But now, for the first time since the club was established in 1797, Aldborough Cricket Club has formed its first ladies&#8217; team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The team, known as the Trail Blazers, will play their inaugural match on Friday evening against West Rudham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The team was born from community involvement, with many of the players starting as supporters on the side lines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Encouraged to join training, they began with just four or five players, but numbers grew as word spread and friends joined in.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokeswoman for the team said: &#8220;This is a place for all, where your attitude is valued as much as your aptitude.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The team will celebrate the occasion, and their first game, back at their &#8220;spiritual home&#8221; \u2013 The Cricketers pub \u2013 win or lose.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The club has extended an open invitation to anyone interested in joining the team, encouraging women of all ages and experience levels to get involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But now, for the first time since the club was established in 1797, Aldborough Cricket Club has formed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546245","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\/546245","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=546245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}