{"id":696794,"date":"2026-07-17T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696794\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:56:08","slug":"allendale-cricket-club-welcomes-durham-and-ben-stokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696794\/","title":{"rendered":"Allendale Cricket Club welcomes Durham and Ben Stokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fans have gathered at a village cricket club for the chance to see ex-England captain Ben Stokes play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 300 spectators have gathered at Allendale Cricket Club in Northumberland to watch the county take on Durham in a one-day warm-up match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stokes announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cq51yee3p2go\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">abrupt retirement<\/a> from international cricket during England&#8217;s third Test against New Zealand last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Father and daughter Martin and and Poppy said Allendale was a local ground for them and it was &#8220;pretty magical&#8221; to see Stokes in the flesh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On their camping chairs at the edge of the cricket pitch, Martin said: &#8220;This ground in particular is just a beautiful cricket ground. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I mean for an event like today, it&#8217;s superb I mean the view for everyone is amazing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Got a really nice day as well and obviously to see Ben Stokes, that&#8217;s pretty magical as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans have gathered at a village cricket club for the chance to see ex-England captain Ben Stokes play.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696794","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\/696794","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=696794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}