{"id":11761,"date":"2018-08-15T10:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11761"},"modified":"2018-08-15T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:24:09","slug":"national-t20-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11761","title":{"rendered":"National T20 starts today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National T20 starts today, although Cricket Canada has not officially announced players attending, teams or the schedule. We understand from information provided unofficially that there will be 4 matches a day, start times 10 am and 3 pm at Maple Leaf CC. Matches will be played on turf wickets.\u00a0 Players will be assigned to one of four teams- no criteria given to date but one assumes with a mix of national players and those aspiring to that level. The format is of a double round robin so each team will play 6 T2 games. No news on live scoring, updates or streaming. Trawling through news items and provincial web pages provides some information on those attending.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/sports\/other-sports\/newfoundland-and-labrador-cricket-players-fall-under-national-gaze-233823\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Telegram, St. John&#8217;s<\/a>, Newfoundland and Labrador have two players attending, Praveen Manhas (a left arm spinner) and Rahul Vashishtha (batsman), both 25 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The Nova Scotia Cricket Association Facebook page provides the information that three of their players are attending, Daksh Talwar (leg spinner), Arun Nag (left arm spin) and Arslan Khan (keeper-batsman). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/southafrica\/content\/player\/47664.html\">Reeze Telling<\/a> (Nova Scotia coach with first-class playing experience in South Africa) is attending as a national selector.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/manitobacricketassociation\/\">Manitoba Cricket Association Facebook page<\/a> posted that five players from the Cosmos Club are attending-\u00a0Trevor Manoosingh, Jatinder (Sunny) Matharu, Sarbjot Singh,\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Amrinder Singh, Araib Khan and Titto Wilson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As previously reported here, <a href=\"http:\/\/quebeccricket.com\/news_detail.php?id=12460\">Quebec Cricket announced players back in May<\/a>&#8211; but we have no later confirmation of their attendance.<\/p>\n<p>We wish all the best to all players at this tournament, and look forward to finding out more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National T20 starts today, although Cricket Canada has not officially announced players attending, teams or the schedule. We understand from information provided unofficially that there will be 4 matches a day, start times 10 am and 3 pm at Maple Leaf CC. Matches will be played on turf wickets.\u00a0 Players will be assigned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761"}],"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=11761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11765,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions\/11765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}