{"id":11677,"date":"2018-07-15T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T22:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11677"},"modified":"2018-07-16T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:32:10","slug":"canadian-dominates-global-t20-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11677","title":{"rendered":"Canadian dominates Global T20 final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11019\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DSC_0127.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11019\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11019 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DSC_0127-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DSC_0127-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DSC_0127-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DSC_0127-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DSC_0127.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saad Bin Zafar batting for Canada (Eddie Norfolk)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Global T20 concluded today with the Vancouver Knights taking the top honours with a 7 wicket win over West Indies B. The Vancouver Knights have some big names &#8211; notably Chris Gayle, Andre Russell and\u00a0Tim Southee but the man of the match was clearly the one Canadian taking part. Thirty-one year old Saad Bin Zafar has been a national team regular for 10 years with his slow left arm bowling, and he would be pleased with his 4 overs,\u00a0two wickets, conceding 26 runs, but he was somewhat overshadowed by Pakistan born, Australian qualified Fawad Ahmed with 3\/24, and Jamaican Sheldon Cottrell with 4\/29 as West Indies B were bowled out for 145.<\/p>\n<p>Saad Bin Zafar has shown he can bat for Canada, but never as he did in this match. Coming in after the Knights had lost 3 wickets for 22 runs, he hit 79 from 48 balls, with eight fours and three sixes, giving the Knights an easy win with 2.3 overs to spare.<br \/>\nIt is perhaps appropriate, albeit surprising, that the final match of the tournament was dominated by a Canadian, and this offers hope for the role of the tournament in developing Canadian cricket. That will of course depend on the tournament returning next year- and that may be more probable with the final finally being graced by a good crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global T20 concluded today with the Vancouver Knights taking the top honours with a 7 wicket win over West Indies B. The Vancouver Knights have some big names &#8211; notably Chris Gayle, Andre Russell and\u00a0Tim Southee but the man of the match was clearly the one Canadian taking part. Thirty-one year old Saad Bin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11019,"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\/11677"}],"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=11677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11681,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677\/revisions\/11681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}