{"id":648482,"date":"2026-06-20T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648482\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:24:09","slug":"oundle-town-cricket-club-celebrates-200th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648482\/","title":{"rendered":"Oundle Town Cricket Club celebrates 200th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A county’s oldest cricket club has marked its 200th anniversary with a programme of celebrations.<\/p>\n

Northamptonshire’s Oundle Town Cricket Club was founded in 1826 and plays its home fixtures at a ground on Milton Road.<\/p>\n

Its bicentenary commemorations will feature a series of matches, including a T20 against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and a range of community events.<\/p>\n

The club, which is the oldest in Northamptonshire, has more than 200 members, and nine senior and junior sides, including its first XI, which competes in the Northamptonshire Cricket League’s, external<\/a> premier division.<\/p>\n

The club’s celebrations began on Wednesday when Northamptonshire County Cricket head coach, Darren Lehmann, visited the club for a question and answer session.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the club played a three-match series with games played according to the laws and dress of 1826, 1926 and 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A county’s oldest cricket club has marked its 200th anniversary with a programme of celebrations. Northamptonshire’s Oundle Town…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648482","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\/648482","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=648482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}