{"id":11672,"date":"2018-07-14T08:31:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11672"},"modified":"2018-07-14T08:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T12:01:29","slug":"t20-tournament-an-important-first-step-despite-its-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11672","title":{"rendered":"T20 tournament an important first step, despite its weaknesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faraz Sawat for the Star &#8211; some highlights:-<br \/>\n&#8211; Singh estimates they have put in $10.5 million to get the tournament going. \u201cIf there are going to be profits, we know it will not happen for a few years and we\u2019re willing to absorb that,\u201d he said<br \/>\n-\u201cIt was surprising to us that the infrastructure was so limited given that there is such a diaspora here from cricket-playing countries and that Canada has played in four Cricket World Cups.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Waqar Younis, the coach of Winnipeg, said, \u201cPeople deserve a lot of credit for putting the tournament together in a short span of time \u2014 really, hats off to them, but for future editions things do need to improve. There is a need to fix the ground and fix the pitches.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sports\/2018\/07\/13\/t20-tournament-an-important-first-step-despite-its-weaknesses.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faraz Sawat for the Star &#8211; some highlights:- &#8211; Singh estimates they have put in $10.5 million to get the tournament going. \u201cIf there are going to be profits, we know it will not happen for a few years and we\u2019re willing to absorb that,\u201d he said -\u201cIt was surprising to us that the infrastructure [&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\/11672"}],"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=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11673,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions\/11673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}