{"id":10224,"date":"2017-05-10T05:28:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10224"},"modified":"2017-05-11T02:35:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T06:05:19","slug":"roy-singh-wants-to-be-cricket-canada-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10224","title":{"rendered":"Roy Singh wants to be Cricket Canada President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Twitter<br \/>\n&#8220;Canadian Premier League T20 Founder Roy Singh submits nomination doc to Cricket Canada to be considered for role of President at May 13 AGM.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cplt_20\/status\/859555173164777472\" target=\"_blank\">Link to tweet<\/a><br \/>\nRoy Singh is the long time promoter of the &#8220;Canadian Premier League T20&#8221;, and is best known for his 2014 promise to build a 35,000 seat cricket only stadium in Ontario. The CPL was projected to have a start date of 2015- to date there&#8217;s no sign of a match being played<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/canada\/content\/story\/759863.html\" target=\"_blank\">2014 CricInfo article<\/a>Update: Roy Singh is interviewed by Ravi Madholall for USA Cricketers:-<br \/>\n&#8220;As an administrator you have got to be progressive and persevering to help improve the general standard of the game; it is not about politics it is about making the right decisions so the players and the country will benefit ultimately&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/usacricketers.com\/news\/trinidadian-born-canadian-roy-singh-to-contest-for-cricket-canada-president\/\">Full interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Twitter &#8220;Canadian Premier League T20 Founder Roy Singh submits nomination doc to Cricket Canada to be considered for role of President at May 13 AGM.&#8221; Link to tweet Roy Singh is the long time promoter of the &#8220;Canadian Premier League T20&#8221;, and is best known for his 2014 promise to build a 35,000 seat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224"}],"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=10224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10273,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}