{"id":264537,"date":"2025-07-14T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264537\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:20:11","slug":"north-wales-players-dont-like-cricket-they-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264537\/","title":{"rendered":"North Wales players don&#8217;t like cricket&#8230; they love it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Hot on the heels of playing Staffordshire Development in two T20 contests on Sunday, the North Wales side will come up against Cumbria on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Gwersyllt Park Cricket Club will host the match-up, starting at 11am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The side will be captained by Denbigh&#8217;s Harrison Jones and he is joined in the XI by clubmate Joe Clayton.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jake James, from host club Gwersyllt Park, is included, as are Brymbo duo Sam Aplin and Joe Norman.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bangor pair Nat Scott and Jamie Grimshaw are joined by Northop&#8217;s Jordan Evans, Colwyn Bay duo Matt Russell and Charlie Collins, and Menai Bridge&#8217;s Patrick Glover.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ryan Collier (40 and 34), Jack Williams (2-15), Jamie Grimshaw (2-26) and Joe Norman (2-30) all played their part for North Wales in Sunday&#8217;s showdowns.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Talking of busy spells, Northop experienced a win and a defeat in Welsh Cup action.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a T20 encounter at St Asaph, it was Bart Ryan-Beswick&#8217;s side who came out on top by seven wickets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Andy Poynton took two for 21 as the Saints were restricted to 140 for six (Kyle Williams 38).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jordan Evans (50 not out) and Ryan-Beswick (34) then led Northop to a winning 141 for three.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the next round, it was a 40-over encounter as Northop lost out by six wickets to Colwyn Bay, who reached 246 for four (George Johansen 74, Charlie Collins 53no, Dan Russell 54).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Matt Mullarkey picked up three for 48 for Northop, who had earlier been dismissed for 242 (Elliot Colcough 81, Evans 40, Ryan-Beswick 36, Russell 4-41).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot on the heels of playing Staffordshire Development in two T20 contests on Sunday, the North Wales side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-264537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114852268389067938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}