{"id":10253,"date":"2017-05-05T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10253"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:05:08","slug":"strong-tradition-continues-with-cima-mayors-cricket-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10253","title":{"rendered":"Strong tradition continues with CIMA Mayor&#8217;s Cricket Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iain Colpitts writes for mississauga.com:-<br \/>\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe the support I had from (education director) Tony Pontes,\u201d Mendis said. \u201cThe game happens on the field, but off the field you need people like Tony to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mendis says 75 schools across Mississauga, both public and Catholic, have cricket teams, and the city itself has seven cricket pitches with two more coming at Danville Park next year.<\/p>\n<p>Pontes, set to retire later this year after nearly 40 years with the Peel board, has fond memories of his first meeting with Ranil too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re always a bit hesitant when someone offers something because we expect that they also want something in return, but they wanted nothing in return,\u201d Pontes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCIMA wanted nothing except to promote the growth of an international sport that their members happen to love and support.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mississauga.com\/sports-story\/7287961-strong-tradition-continues-with-cima-mayor-s-cricket-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain Colpitts writes for mississauga.com:- \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe the support I had from (education director) Tony Pontes,\u201d Mendis said. \u201cThe game happens on the field, but off the field you need people like Tony to make it happen.\u201d Mendis says 75 schools across Mississauga, both public and Catholic, have cricket teams, and the city itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253"}],"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=10253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10254,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253\/revisions\/10254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}