{"id":11651,"date":"2018-07-04T06:56:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T10:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11651"},"modified":"2018-07-04T06:56:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T10:26:26","slug":"lack-of-crowds-has-global-t20-cricket-organizers-stumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11651","title":{"rendered":"Lack of crowds has Global T20 cricket organizers stumped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Sun:-<br \/>\nWhere have all the fans gone? The organizers erected temporary stands with seating for 7,000 fans it expected at the Maple Leaf Cricket Ground at King City, that\u2019s located 50 kilometres north of Toronto. But no more than 3,500 have filled the stands each day since the first ball was bowled last Thursday&#8230;.<br \/>\nWest Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, who captains Winnipeg Hawks, hasn\u2019t been a fan of the wicket even after his team crushed Toronto Nationals by a whopping 56 runs on Monday.<br \/>\n\u201cIn all honesty, more effort should have been put in to build better pitches,\u2019\u2019 said Bravo, \u201cespecially since this tournament has brought in world-class players and so many promising young players.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is dangerous to play in these conditions and you don\u2019t want to see any player to be injured by a delivery because of the pitch,\u201d added Bravo. This was his parting shot before leaving on Wednesday to fulfill his commitments with Middlesex in the T20 Blast in England.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/torontosun.com\/sports\/other-sports\/lack-of-crowds-has-global-t20-cricket-organizers-stumped\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Sun:- Where have all the fans gone? The organizers erected temporary stands with seating for 7,000 fans it expected at the Maple Leaf Cricket Ground at King City, that\u2019s located 50 kilometres north of Toronto. But no more than 3,500 have filled the stands each day since the first ball was bowled [&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\/11651"}],"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=11651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11652,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11651\/revisions\/11652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}