{"id":567513,"date":"2026-05-05T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567513\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:21:08","slug":"brixworth-cricket-ground-bought-in-county-side-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567513\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixworth cricket ground bought in county side agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NCCC said the move would &#8220;create new opportunities to grow participation and engagement across the game, particularly in women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; cricket, disability cricket, and within the Northamptonshire player pathway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The county club added that it would &#8220;no longer be progressing&#8221; its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-northamptonshire-68327488\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously proposed new-build development at Moulton.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew Roper, from BCC, said: &#8220;This is a huge moment for Brixworth Cricket Club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Securing the ground means we can now concentrate on the important things of growing the game and serving the local community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We cannot be more excited to work with the Steelbacks Foundation&#8230; their passion equals ours which is a great start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karen Nicholson, chair of the Steelbacks Foundation, said: &#8220;This is about more than protecting a cricket ground, it&#8217;s about unlocking its potential as a community asset. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a brilliant example of what can be achieved when clubs and county cricket come together with a shared ambition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NCCC said the move would &#8220;create new opportunities to grow participation and engagement across the game, particularly in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-567513","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\/567513","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=567513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}