{"id":11639,"date":"2018-07-01T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11639"},"modified":"2018-07-01T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T12:23:59","slug":"the-young-cricketers-who-ended-up-beside-fallen-idols-smith-and-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11639","title":{"rendered":"The young cricketers who ended up beside fallen idols Smith and Warner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Olding writes for the Sydney Mirning Herald:-<br \/>\n&#8220;To that end, Cricket Canada required the tournament&#8217;s organisers to set aside four roster spots in each team for Canadians, including an under-23 player.<br \/>\nThat led to 18-year-old Canadian fast bowler Faisal Jamkhandi &#8211; who grew up idolising Brett Lee and modelling his bowling action on the legendary Australian &#8211; receiving a call-up four days ago to join the Winnipeg Hawks alongside Warner.<br \/>\nLikewise, 23-year-old Armaan Kapoor was drafted to the Toronto Nationals with his hero Steve Smith and West Indies stars Darren Sammy and Kieron Pollard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s basically like a fan boy moment. You walk into a team meeting and have the world\u2019s best Test batsman beside you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to absorb everything and listen to everything they say.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/the-young-cricketers-who-ended-up-beside-fallen-idols-smith-and-warner-20180630-p4zoos.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Olding writes for the Sydney Mirning Herald:- &#8220;To that end, Cricket Canada required the tournament&#8217;s organisers to set aside four roster spots in each team for Canadians, including an under-23 player. That led to 18-year-old Canadian fast bowler Faisal Jamkhandi &#8211; who grew up idolising Brett Lee and modelling his bowling action on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639"}],"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=11639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11640,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions\/11640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}