{"id":11682,"date":"2018-07-16T14:11:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11682"},"modified":"2018-07-16T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:41:16","slug":"steve-smith-comes-to-the-rescue-for-young-immigrant-cricketers-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11682","title":{"rendered":"Steve Smith comes to the rescue for young immigrant cricketers in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evin Priest and Ben Horne for the Daily Telegraph (Australia):-<br \/>\n&#8220;Smith didn\u2019t want to simply leave a lump sum with the Canadian board, and met with local coaches and officials to determine how his money could best meet a direct need.<br \/>\nHe was told Canadian cricket has suffered greatly from kids pulling out, because their parents \u2014 mostly immigrants from Indian and Pakistani backgrounds \u2014 can\u2019t afford steep registration and uniform fees that start at about $350 a year.<br \/>\nSmith\u2019s plan is to provide direct assistance to families in Toronto \u2014 through the Toronto Cricket Club \u2014 by setting up a fund that will effectively cover all cricket costs for struggling parents.<br \/>\nThe idea isn\u2019t to pay for just one year\u2019s costs, but to provide assistance to the same families for several seasons to try and keep young kids playing and the game growing as a result.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/juniors-boost-steve-smith-comes-to-the-rescue-for-young-immigrant-cricketers-in-canada\/news-story\/66d192eea3fd8cabcd93d43a98a06a31\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evin Priest and Ben Horne for the Daily Telegraph (Australia):- &#8220;Smith didn\u2019t want to simply leave a lump sum with the Canadian board, and met with local coaches and officials to determine how his money could best meet a direct need. He was told Canadian cricket has suffered greatly from kids pulling out, because their [&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\/11682"}],"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=11682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11683,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11682\/revisions\/11683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}