Newcastle baller Sean Longstaff takes the maxim of cricket in summer, football in winter serious, and continued his tradition of spending holidays from the pitch for the striped Magpies and diverting it to bowling for his local cricket club, Tynemouth CC.
In a game against Felling CC, Longstaff bowled a pacy delivery and claimed a LBW wicket. With Shubman Gill shading the likes of Carse & Tongue with a double ton and England generally in very poor shape, fans at Tynemouth urged the footballer, quipping he try out for Lord’s. “Wheels” they called his runup.
Fans on Twitter informed that Longstaff has long spent his summers playing cricket for the Club before his tearaway pace was highlighted on social media when he bowled at Felling in the North East Premier League.
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The Newcastle midfielder, 27, is an academy product and is seeking clarity on his future with nufcblog.co.uk reporting that three clubs Everton, Leeds Utd and overseas are interested in his services. Longstaff hasn’t started a football game since December, and was passed over for Lewis Miley.
In May, Newcastle boss Eddie Howe told BBC Radio Newcastle, “I don’t have to motivate him. He should motivate himself – he is here representing the club he loves. He has to be ready to take his chance when it comes. Any train of thought that I have to – I can’t do that for all 25 players.
But Sean is motivated. He has been brilliant behind the scenes, he is training well and he’s got undoubted qualities. He also has a contract for next year. The control is very much in his hands as to what he wants to do for his long-term future. And we are certainly delighted to have him.” Meanwhile he has continued immersing in cricket.
Ian Botham played football for Scunthorpe and cricket, a tad more famously amongst many others. Like footballers who hunker down for some light weight cricket, rugby players take to cricket in France too. The Bordeaux Giscours cricket club tends to have plenty of South African rugby players, turning out for their summer side playing at Labarde and have often won the Aquitaine Division. French cricket teams are typically based around vineyards.
