{"id":607964,"date":"2026-05-28T06:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T06:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:04:14","slug":"twyford-cricketer-takes-1000th-wicket-52-years-after-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607964\/","title":{"rendered":"Twyford cricketer takes 1,000th wicket 52 years after first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Downes said he first began playing for Twyford and Ruscombe as a teenager, and in that time had seen plenty of highs and lows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[The club] means absolutely everything to me &#8211; lifelong friends, the camaraderie, the team spirit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club &#8220;always had a really strong beating heart&#8221;, he said, but had also faced some &#8220;difficult times&#8221;, including when the team&#8217;s former clubhouse burnt down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were probably three or four years that were really tough, but we managed to move successfully and you know, here we are today,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downes said he first began playing for Twyford and Ruscombe as a teenager, and in that time had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-607964","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\/607964","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=607964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}