{"id":11207,"date":"2018-01-24T07:26:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11207"},"modified":"2018-01-24T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:56:24","slug":"why-is-the-usa-unable-to-develop-homegrown-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11207","title":{"rendered":"Why is the USA unable to develop homegrown talent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good read from Peter Della Penna on CricInfo- and highly relevant to Canada<br \/>\n&#8220;Why is there a desire to continue seeking out these types of players when they immediately become eligible instead of giving more opportunities to locally developed talent?<br \/>\nA big reason is that the existing infrastructure fails to not only develop talent, but in some ways has a noticeably detrimental effect, tearing down skills and techniques established in better conditions. This is seen in multiple areas: lack of 50-over competitions, too many teams and the consequent thinning out of talent within premier divisions, lack of turf wickets, and poorly maintained outfields.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/_\/id\/22189548\/why-usa-unable-develop-homegrown-talent\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good read from Peter Della Penna on CricInfo- and highly relevant to Canada &#8220;Why is there a desire to continue seeking out these types of players when they immediately become eligible instead of giving more opportunities to locally developed talent? A big reason is that the existing infrastructure fails to not only develop talent, [&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\/11207"}],"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=11207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11208,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions\/11208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}