{"id":66133,"date":"2025-08-14T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66133\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:13:07","slug":"walking-cricket-has-changed-my-life-says-bexhill-club-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66133\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Walking cricket has changed my life,&#8217; says Bexhill club member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A group of over-50&#8217;s walking cricket players say the sport is helping with their physical and mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bexhill Walking Cricket Club meet every Friday for an indoor match of the sport, which is played with a soft ball at a walking pace. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players range from people in their early 60s to mid 80s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got people who have lost huge amounts of weight, and players with dementia and just some who have expanded their social circle,&#8221; says chairman Laurie Ray. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of over-50&#8217;s walking cricket players say the sport is helping with their physical and mental health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-66133","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\/66133","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=66133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}