{"id":11684,"date":"2018-07-17T05:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T09:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11684"},"modified":"2018-07-17T05:45:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T09:15:04","slug":"gt20-a-fair-success-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11684","title":{"rendered":"GT20 &#8211; A fair success for Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were going to write our own review of the Global T20 for the site, but Bertus de Jong has beaten us to it, with an excellent piece for Cricbuzz:-<br \/>\n&#8211; That the league got off the ground at all is a quite remarkable achievement, and indeed Cricket Canada and their backers, Sriram Bakthisaran&#8217;s Mercuri Group, were met with a fair degree of scepticism when the league was first announced back in February. Just six months later and they can look back on the inaugural edition with a fair amount of satisfaction. Some exciting cricket, no small amount of media interest, a satisfied stable of stars, and a belatedly announced broadcast deal that saw the league watched around the world. All told, the GT20 looks the closest thing to a success in the troubled history of North American T20 initiatives. But that said, it is a qualified success at best. Finals day aside, crowds ranged from underwhelming to barely there throughout the competition, the drawbacks of a single-venue competition in general and the shortcomings of Maple Leaf CC, in particular, were much in evidence, and there remain serious questions regarding the long-term profitability and indeed viability of the league. For any envious Associates, the league is not necessarily a model they should wish to emulate even if it were possible to do so.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricbuzz.com\/cricket-news\/103163\/gt20-a-fair-success-for-canada-but-not-a-model-to-follow\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were going to write our own review of the Global T20 for the site, but Bertus de Jong has beaten us to it, with an excellent piece for Cricbuzz:- &#8211; That the league got off the ground at all is a quite remarkable achievement, and indeed Cricket Canada and their backers, Sriram Bakthisaran&#8217;s Mercuri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684"}],"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=11684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11685,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions\/11685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}