{"id":251448,"date":"2026-07-04T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/cow-corner-cricket-match-abandoned-after-runaway-bull-stops-play\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:25:08","slug":"cow-corner-cricket-match-abandoned-after-runaway-bull-stops-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/cow-corner-cricket-match-abandoned-after-runaway-bull-stops-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Cow corner: cricket match abandoned after runaway bull stops play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A cricket match had to be abandoned after a runaway bull stormed the playing field and charged at players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The North East Premier League fixture at Burnopfield Cricket Club near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/newcastle\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle<\/a> was called off on Saturday evening despite efforts to remove the animal from the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Martin Oswell, director of the Tyneside club, said the young bull, which weighed about 800kg, had escaped from a farm and travelled about a mile to the playing field where it arrived at about 3pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Safety concerns quickly arose as the animal could be seen charging at players and farmers who attempted to recapture it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"a74c9a35-cbfe-4e0e-a090-04847d161b24\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-d9bay7\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-174mzkf\"><span class=\"dcr-vyhg7z\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">The bull was \u2018spooked\u2019 and dangerous.<\/span> Photograph: Martin Oswell\/PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police were eventually called to the scene before the bull left \u201cof its own accord\u201d, Oswell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He told the Press Association: \u201cTwo of the farmers tried to stop the bull and it actually hit one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cHe was OK but I mean the beast probably weighed about 800kg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cIt was a juvenile bull, incredibly fit, athletic \u2013 quite frankly, it was quite dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Oswell added: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t get rid of it. There was no chance that the game was going to restart before the cutoff time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cAt first it was quite novel, it was quite funny \u2013 but we never thought it was going to impact on our game being abandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The bull\u2019s owner drove a cow to the cricket club in an effort to entice the animal off the field but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Oswell added: \u201cThe farmer who owns the bull arrived at the ground and tried at first to sort of cajole it and get it into a pen, but it failed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe bull was very frightened \u2013 it was spooked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Burnopfield CC, who are second in the North East Premier League, had scored 226 runs against opponents Hetton Lyons who were 12 for one when the match was interrupted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/04\/cricket-match-abandoned-after-charging-bull-stops-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cricket match had to be abandoned after a runaway bull stormed the playing field and charged at players. The North East Premier League fixture at Burnopfield Cricket Club near Newcastle was called off on Saturday evening despite efforts to remove the animal from the ground. Martin Oswell, director of the Tyneside club, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}