{"id":10705,"date":"2017-07-04T06:48:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10705"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:48:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:18:41","slug":"once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-youth-to-represent-gta-cricket-in-trinidad-and-tobago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10705","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Once in a lifetime opportunity\u2019: Youth to represent GTA cricket in Trinidad and Tobago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Sharpe for the Globe and Mail:-<br \/>\nA group of 12 young men are preparing for a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime opportunity\u201d to represent the Greater Toronto Area in the 2017 Cricket Across the Pond matches in Trinidad and Tobago.<br \/>\nJuly\u2019s 10th annual Cricket Across the Pond, all-expenses-paid tournament will allow them to learn the local culture and meet some of the world\u2019s cricket stars.<br \/>\nAll-rounder Hasan Khan, 20 \u2013 whose involvement in helping to umpire and organize other league teams and tournaments all over the GTA is part of the reason he was chosen for the team \u2013 hopes the opportunity will lead to a professional cricket career.<br \/>\n\u201cI am honoured, you know. Going from Canada to the West Indies, where cricket is played internationally, it means a lot to me,\u201d Mr. Khan said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-youth-to-represent-gta-cricket-in-trinidad-and-tobago\/article35537919\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Sharpe for the Globe and Mail:- A group of 12 young men are preparing for a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime opportunity\u201d to represent the Greater Toronto Area in the 2017 Cricket Across the Pond matches in Trinidad and Tobago. July\u2019s 10th annual Cricket Across the Pond, all-expenses-paid tournament will allow them to learn the local culture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705"}],"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=10705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10706,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions\/10706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}