{"id":11263,"date":"2018-02-11T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T15:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11263"},"modified":"2018-02-11T11:32:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T15:02:41","slug":"icc-geographically-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11263","title":{"rendered":"ICC geographically challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/map.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-11264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/map-751x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/map.jpg 751w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/map-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/map-300x409.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The coverage of the current ICC Division 2 tournament, outside of live scorecards, has been meagre, so it is good to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/video\/618924\">video highlights of Canada&#8217;s fine win over UAE<\/a> &#8211; highly recommended viewing for all Canadian cricket fans.<br \/>\nThe screengrab shown here is from the start of the video and suggests that the ICC&#8217;s grasp of North American geography is weak to say the least. Others may see the placing of the Canadian flag over the outline of the USA reflects a perception that the ICC&#8217;s focus remains firmly south of the border &#8211; perhaps a wish that our neighbours to the south were competing\u00a0instead of\u00a0Canada in this tournament.<br \/>\nMeanwhile Canada is nearly assured of a top two place in the tournament after beating Kenya to go 3-0, and advancement to the World Cup qualifier in Zimbabwe. We can but hope that by then the ICC have worked out where Canada is located.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coverage of the current ICC Division 2 tournament, outside of live scorecards, has been meagre, so it is good to see video highlights of Canada&#8217;s fine win over UAE &#8211; highly recommended viewing for all Canadian cricket fans. The screengrab shown here is from the start of the video and suggests that the ICC&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263"}],"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=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11265,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions\/11265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}