“You’re just in the bubble, any sports person will tell you that. You just do what you do and presumably if you’re doing well maybe you get a chance, if there is a chance to promote you go on. That’s what’s happened to me.”<\/p>\n
Being called up to represent your country in any sport is a huge honour.<\/p>\n
But when we think about being called up, we might assume that sport is a young person’s game.<\/p>\n
Not so for Ian Barton, who at the age of 62 is preparing to represent England in a World Cup in Canada – but in the Over-60s Cricket World Cup rather than the ongoing football competition.<\/p>\n
“I fly out on 5 August with a 16-man squad to try and win the World Cup,” he told BBC Radio Lancashire.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got back into cricket for Lancashire and obviously loving it. I’m doing OK, scoring quite a few runs so I’m enjoying doing what I do.”<\/p>\n
Barton’s pathway to playing for his country in a World Cup has happened quite quickly by his own admission.<\/p>\n
“This time two years ago I was batting low down in the second team for Lancashire Over-60s and two years hence, I’ve captained the England Lions a few weeks ago,” he added.<\/p>\n
“And now I’ve been picked for the England main team to go to the World Cup, so it’s all a bit mind-blowing I suppose.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“You’re just in the bubble, any sports person will tell you that. You just do what you do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678135","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\/678135","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=678135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}