{"id":10737,"date":"2017-07-14T06:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T09:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10737"},"modified":"2017-07-14T06:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T09:56:34","slug":"cricket-catching-on-in-peterborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10737","title":{"rendered":"Cricket catching on in Peterborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Nyznik for The Peterborough Examiner<br \/>\nThe city&#8217;s cricket team is a big part of what keeps Sankara Sekaran in Peterborough.<br \/>\nSekaran, 32, is the captain of the Peterborough Cricket Association. It&#8217;s one of 13 teams in the Markham Premier Cricket League (MPCL). The other 12 teams are from the GTA.<br \/>\nWhen Sekaran moved to Peterborough four years ago, he was surprised to learn it had a cricket team.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d played professionally in India and on a school team in Windsor.<br \/>\nBut he didn&#8217;t expect to be able to play his beloved sport in a smaller, more rural community.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the main reasons I&#8217;m still sticking with Peterborough,&#8221; Sekaran said with a laugh during a break while playing the United Titans-Red on Saturday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com\/2017\/07\/08\/cricket-catching-on-in-peterborough\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Nyznik for The Peterborough Examiner The city&#8217;s cricket team is a big part of what keeps Sankara Sekaran in Peterborough. Sekaran, 32, is the captain of the Peterborough Cricket Association. It&#8217;s one of 13 teams in the Markham Premier Cricket League (MPCL). The other 12 teams are from the GTA. When Sekaran moved to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737"}],"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=10737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10738,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions\/10738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}