{"id":10869,"date":"2022-07-14T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=10869"},"modified":"2022-07-14T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:49:30","slug":"ben-makes-cricketing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/ben-makes-cricketing-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Makes Cricketing History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ben-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ben-1.png 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ben-1-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Talented cricket player Ben Musgrave pictured with his coach Sam Whitney<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Year 8 student, Ben Musgrave has plenty to celebrate after producing an incredible bowling performance, playing for Bridgnorth Cricket Club in a recent senior league match. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The talented leg-spinner made history by taking five wickets for the fourth team against Madeley, equalling coach Sam Whitney&#8217;s record of being the youngest bowler in the club&#8217;s history to take a senior five wicket haul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 2002, Sam, who also runs training sessions at Bridgnorth Endowed, famously took 5-73 against Newport, and went on to take over 500 Birmingham League wickets in first team cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Leg spin is one of the toughest parts of the game to master, and it takes a lot of hard work to get it right,&#8221; said Sam, after Ben equalled his long-standing record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ben-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ben-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ben-2-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Ben and Sam practicing their spinning techniques at Bridgnorth Cricket Club<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You can tell how much he enjoys it, and he&#8217;s constantly trying to get better by learning to bowl different deliveries. I&#8217;m so proud of him, there&#8217;s no limit on what he could achieve.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The twelve-year-old, who also plays for the county, has been into cricket for many years, according to mum Alison. &#8220;Ben started playing when he was about six, as I remember him going to a cricket camp, unofficially! He loves bowling, and Sam has done a great job with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben has since gone on to play in the third team for Bridgnorth, and is representing Shropshire at age-group level for the second year running. The school is also fortunate enough to benefit from his talents as he plays for Bridgnorth Endowed&#8217;s U14 boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Ben on his impressive cricketing achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 8 student, Ben Musgrave has plenty to celebrate after producing an incredible bowling performance, playing for Bridgnorth Cricket Club in a recent senior league match. The talented leg-spinner made history by taking five wickets for the fourth team against Madeley, equalling coach Sam Whitney&#8217;s record of being the youngest bowler in the club&#8217;s history &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/ben-makes-cricketing-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ben Makes Cricketing History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[2,133,156,16],"class_list":["post-10869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-county-sport","tag-cricket","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}