{"id":558287,"date":"2026-04-30T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558287\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:59:08","slug":"chris-woakes-supports-state-school-cricket-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558287\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Woakes supports state school cricket competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England World Cup winner Chris Woakes has been back to his roots to launch a competition to get more children in state schools playing cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Warwickshire bowler coached pupils at his former school, Barr Beacon School in Aldridge, before their first game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first round of matches in the Barclays Knight-Stokes Cup, which is run by the MCC Foundation purely for state schools, was held on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just great to see kids enjoying the sport and having the opportunity to play it, both boys and girls,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England World Cup winner Chris Woakes has been back to his roots to launch a competition to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-558287","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\/558287","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=558287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}