{"id":770420,"date":"2026-09-14T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770420\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:56:13","slug":"luke-charlesworth-gloucestershire-seamer-to-retire-following-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770420\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Charlesworth: Gloucestershire seamer to retire following back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire seamer Luke Charlesworth is to retire from cricket at the end of the season because of a back injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old has made 11 appearances for the county in all formats after coming through their academy but has not played since suffering the injury at the start of August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After seeking expert medical advice, where all options were explored, I have been advised that I have no other option but to retire with the long-term view of my wellbeing,&#8221; Charlesworth said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This decision has been incredibly painful and frustrating, especially on the back of three years of intermittent rehabilitation which has prevented me from fulfilling my cricketing potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlesworth, the younger brother of Gloucestershire all-rounder Ben Charlesworth, made his debut for the team in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He took 11 wickets in total, with his best figures 3-42 against Kent in this summer&#8217;s One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire seamer Luke Charlesworth is to retire from cricket at the end of the season because of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770420","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\/770420","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=770420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}