{"id":11552,"date":"2018-06-12T07:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T11:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2018-06-12T07:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T11:09:54","slug":"calgarys-female-cricket-team-sets-sights-on-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11552","title":{"rendered":"Calgary&#8217;s female cricket team sets sights on growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mcgarvey for CBC:<br \/>\nThe Calgary team is also planning for the future, trying to attract more players and grow the women&#8217;s league in Alberta.<br \/>\n&#8220;I was born and brought up in Canada and it reminds me of my roots back home from India,&#8221; said player Shivalika Katyal.<br \/>\n&#8220;My mum was always interested and we&#8217;d stay up late and watch games on the TV, then when I went to university and found out there was a women&#8217;s team I had to join it,&#8221; said Katyal, who&#8217;s keen to see other women come and give cricket a try.<br \/>\n&#8220;When people come and try it, a lot of them turn out to love it,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Even if you&#8217;ve never played before and you just want to try it, we have all the equipment here so you don&#8217;t have to worry about bringing anything, you don&#8217;t have to bring experience, age or anything.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/calgarys-female-cricket-team-sets-sights-on-growth-1.4699128\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story and video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mcgarvey for CBC: The Calgary team is also planning for the future, trying to attract more players and grow the women&#8217;s league in Alberta. &#8220;I was born and brought up in Canada and it reminds me of my roots back home from India,&#8221; said player Shivalika Katyal. &#8220;My mum was always interested and we&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552"}],"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=11552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11553,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}