{"id":8393,"date":"2024-12-21T00:48:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T00:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/durham-lord-botham-to-become-clubs-honorary-president\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T00:48:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T00:48:41","slug":"durham-lord-botham-to-become-clubs-honorary-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/durham-lord-botham-to-become-clubs-honorary-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham: Lord Botham to become club&#8217;s honorary president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ex-all-rounder, who scored 5,200 runs and took 383 wickets in 102 Tests, has been a passionate advocate of the game in the north east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Botham became club chair in the year after Durham had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/37541136\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">relegated from Division One for financial issues<\/a>, were placed under a salary cap and had their status as a Test match venue rescinded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he has presided over an upturn in fortunes, which is recognised by ECB chair Richard Thompson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Lord Botham&#8217;s period as chair has been marked by Durham&#8217;s strong recovery and the conveyer belt of English talent it has produced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club has been put on a more secure footing, returned to the First Division of the men&#8217;s County Championship, and it will also compete in the top tier of the new women&#8217;s domestic structure next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c9dp6y34jxzo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-all-rounder, who scored 5,200 runs and took 383 wickets in 102 Tests, has been a passionate advocate of the game in the north east. Botham became club chair in the year after Durham had been relegated from Division One for financial issues, were placed under a salary cap and had their status as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8395,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions\/8395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}