{"id":11568,"date":"2018-06-15T06:43:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2018-06-15T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:21:55","slug":"calgary-cricket-in-legal-dispute-with-cricket-alberta-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11568","title":{"rendered":"Calgary cricket in legal dispute with Cricket Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Franklin for CTV News:-<br \/>\nCalgary\u2019s cricket community is mired in a legal dispute that some players worry is threatening to tear apart a league built up over the past century.<br \/>\nSome members of the Calgary and District Cricket League say there\u2019s no more money to support the sport in the city and they\u2019re suing the former president, accusing him of taking thousands of dollars out of the league\u2019s funds and then moving to Ontario. The former president denies the allegations and is countersuing&#8230;<br \/>\nSalman Khan, the former president of the league, told CTV in a telephone interview all the money went to the league, from training to officiating to equipment to upkeep of the infrastructure here and when he took over, the league\u2019s finances were already in trouble.<br \/>\nHe also says the league is still in arrears to Cricket Alberta.<br \/>\nNow, members of the Calgary and District Cricket League say all their players are being blocked from representing Alberta or Canada at tournaments because of the dispute.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.ctvnews.ca\/cricket-players-worry-if-the-sport-will-survive-in-calgary-1.3974218\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Franklin for CTV News:- Calgary\u2019s cricket community is mired in a legal dispute that some players worry is threatening to tear apart a league built up over the past century. Some members of the Calgary and District Cricket League say there\u2019s no more money to support the sport in the city and they\u2019re suing [&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\/11568"}],"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=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11570,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions\/11570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}