{"id":666328,"date":"2026-06-30T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666328\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:12:11","slug":"christian-fuchs-former-leicester-city-defender-smashes-six-into-river-on-cricket-debut-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666328\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Fuchs: Former Leicester City defender smashes six into river on cricket debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

A day before turning out for Derbyshire village side, Fuchs had resigned from his role as head coach of Newport County.<\/a><\/p>\n

While Fuchs’ first senior managerial role saw him win just nine of 31 matches in charge of the Exiles, he got off to a victorious start in cricket whites.<\/p>\n

Bowling first, Fuchs returned figures of 2-20 from his 3.2 overs and also contributed to a run out as Grindleford dismissed Riverside Notts for 150.<\/p>\n

“His bowling, he was throwing it but it was alright,” Mahmood laughed. <\/p>\n

“It was his first game, so it is what it is. We gave him the benefit of the doubt and didn’t say anything to him.”<\/p>\n

During the run chase, Fuchs batted at number six, scoring 12 runs off 18 deliveries, including a four and that six as Grindleford triumphed by one wicket.<\/p>\n

“When he got out, he was chatting to all of us. He was a very, very nice guy,” added Mahmood.<\/p>\n

“It was a surprise to actually see him there because it was so random. It’s a random game on a Sunday and we just see a Premier League winner there.”<\/p>\n

Fuchs is not the only former footballer who has swapped between the two sports later on in life.<\/p>\n

Former England goalkeeper Nigel Martyn plays for Cornwall’s over-50s side. Ex-Liverpool and Manchester City midfielder Dietmar Hamann once represented Cheshire side Alderley Edge’s second team while still contracted at City.<\/p>\n

Current Leeds United midfielder Sean Longstaff is also spending his summer break playing for Tynemouth in Division 1 of the North East Premier League.<\/p>\n

During his football career, Fuchs made more than 650 appearances for club and country that included six seasons at the King Power Stadium. <\/p>\n

As well as winning both the Premier League and the FA Cup, Fuchs won 78 caps for Austria and was captain at Euro 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day before turning out for Derbyshire village side, Fuchs had resigned from his role as head coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666328","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\/666328","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=666328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}