{"id":765298,"date":"2026-09-09T18:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765298\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:18:14","slug":"crowd-gathers-outside-hotel-containing-pakistan-under-19-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765298\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd gathers outside hotel containing Pakistan under-19 cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his Facebook post, which was removed on Wednesday morning, Madgwick said: &#8220;I visited the manager and the hotel explained it was the Pakistani cricket team staying. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The cricket team coach came to speak to me personally and I saw proof (hotel were happy to provide).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the BBC, he said: &#8220;Someone online saw a group of what looked like foreign nationals leaving the coach and put a photo of it online and that&#8217;s where it spurred from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was mere speculation rather than based on truth or fact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In this case they have made a grave error, a grave mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Responding to criticism and comments on his Facebook post, Madgwick denied the reaction to the cricketers&#8217; arrival had been racist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I think one person made the assumption and everybody else followed that assumption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It isn&#8217;t a good reflection on our city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not something I want our city to be known for.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his Facebook post, which was removed on Wednesday morning, Madgwick said: &#8220;I visited the manager and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765298","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\/765298","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=765298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}