{"id":10142,"date":"2017-04-02T20:29:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T23:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2017-04-04T06:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T09:33:52","slug":"national-squad-in-barbados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10142","title":{"rendered":"National squad in Barbados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national senior team is in Barbados on a training tour in preparation for the ICC Division 3 tournament in Uganda next month. Cricket Canada&#8217;s Facebook page reports Canada making 396\/8 against club side St. Catherines, with Rizwan Cheema making 172 from 84 balls (14 sixes!).<br \/>\nUpdate: <a href=\"http:\/\/gocricketgocanada.com\/news\/article\/canadas-tour-barbados\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket Canada has published a report <\/a>and provided some background on their web site. It is a 5 match tour and a squad of 15 has travelled- not including national team captain Nitish Kumar, who is playing first-class cricket in the UK for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/content\/team\/1128.html\" target=\"_blank\">Loughborough MCCU<\/a>. Kumar has hit excellent early season form; after making 34 against Leicester he today (April 3) registered his first class best score, an impressive 141 \u00a0from 145 balls (his second first-class century), with sixteen fours and five sixes against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/mcc-university-matches-2017\/engine\/match\/1068516.html\" target=\"_blank\">Northamptonshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s next match was on April 3, against the Police Sports Club. They continued to feast on club bowling with making\u00a0338\/3 in 50 overs, Dhaliwal making 176, Soraine 54 retired hurt, Cheema 54 not out. They bowled out the Police for 129 all out, Junaid 3-22, Dhindsa 3 &#8211; 28, and Saad 2-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national senior team is in Barbados on a training tour in preparation for the ICC Division 3 tournament in Uganda next month. Cricket Canada&#8217;s Facebook page reports Canada making 396\/8 against club side St. Catherines, with Rizwan Cheema making 172 from 84 balls (14 sixes!). Update: Cricket Canada has published a report and provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10155,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}