{"id":620768,"date":"2026-06-04T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620768\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:45:09","slug":"we-always-knew-emilio-gay-was-a-talented-cricketer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620768\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We always knew Emilio Gay was a talented cricketer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former teacher of cricketer Emilio Gay said he always knew he was a &#8220;talented player&#8221; as he made his Test debut for England against New Zealand at Lord&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gay, 26, grew up in Bedford, went to Bedford School, played for Northamptonshire for five years &#8211; and now plays for Durham. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gary Steer, the director of cricket at the school, said he was great to train as he &#8220;just loved playing the game and he took everything on board&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opener received his England Test cap, on Thursday morning, from another Bedford School alumnus, Sir Alastair Cook, before being dismissed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/live\/c937gdj0p07t\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight runs<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former teacher of cricketer Emilio Gay said he always knew he was a &#8220;talented player&#8221; as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620768","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\/620768","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=620768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}