{"id":617081,"date":"2026-06-02T14:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617081\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:02:36","slug":"international-cricket-is-putting-taunton-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617081\/","title":{"rendered":"International cricket is &#8216;putting Taunton on the map&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hosting international sporting contests is helping put a town &#8220;on the map&#8221; when it comes to encouraging investment, a business leader has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s women will take on India at the County Ground in Taunton later in their final T20 match before the World Cup, with 6,000 ticket holders expected at the town-centre venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And whatever happens on the pitch, businesses in the town believe days like this are good news for them, with cricket fans spending their money inside and outside the stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bethan Turner, from the Taunton Chamber of Commerce, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s such a local footfall driver, but [also] such a driver for inward investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hosting international sporting contests is helping put a town &#8220;on the map&#8221; when it comes to encouraging investment,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617081","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\/617081","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=617081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}