{"id":11621,"date":"2018-06-28T06:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T10:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11621"},"modified":"2018-06-28T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:49:30","slug":"global-t20-kicks-off-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11621","title":{"rendered":"Global T20 kicks off today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gt2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11622\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gt2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gt2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gt2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gt2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gt2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The ground is ready, the players are in town and all seems ready for today&#8217;s opener. It is an astonishing feat to put this together given the timelines, so kudos to all involved. In other news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/cricket\/global-t20-canada-broadcast-rights-bagged-by-star-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Star have picked up the global broadcasting rights<\/a>, and the league <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/global-t20-canada-league-cricnwin-fan-engagement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have signed a deal with CricnWin<\/a> as a fan engagement platform &#8211;\u00a0 &#8220;Cricnwin, which bills itself as the \u2018world\u2019s first cricket fan engagement platform\u2019, connects fans through chatrooms, and aims to create a \u201cmore transparent engagement\u201d between fans and franchise.&#8221;<br \/>\nWe understand that a number of sponsors have been signed up, including CIBC, Turkish Airlines, Canada Dry and Telus.<br \/>\nNow for some cricket!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ground is ready, the players are in town and all seems ready for today&#8217;s opener. It is an astonishing feat to put this together given the timelines, so kudos to all involved. In other news, Star have picked up the global broadcasting rights, and the league have signed a deal with CricnWin as a [&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\/11621"}],"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=11621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11623,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions\/11623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}