{"id":675735,"date":"2026-07-05T22:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675735\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:47:22","slug":"runaway-bull-storms-cricket-pitch-with-match-forced-to-be-abandoned-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675735\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway bull storms cricket pitch with match forced to be abandoned | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cricket match was brought to an early end after a runaway bull stormed the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Footage captured by Martin Oswell, director at Burnopfield Cricket Club near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/newcastle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle<\/a>, shows the animal running around the field and charging at players after it had escaped from a nearby farm.<\/p>\n<p>The North East Premier League fixture was eventually called off after attempts to remove the \u201cspooked\u201d young bull proved futile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first it was quite novel, it was quite funny \u2013 but we never thought it was going to impact our game being abandoned,\u201d said Mr Oswell.<\/p>\n<p>He said the bull later left \u201cof its own accord\u201d before police arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cricket match was brought to an early end after a runaway bull stormed the pitch. Footage captured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[33792,1721,101,33794,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bestof","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-topix","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675735","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=675735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}