{"id":12347,"date":"2019-03-15T16:43:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T20:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=12347"},"modified":"2019-03-15T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T20:13:01","slug":"cricket-canada-name-desai-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=12347","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Canada name Desai as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket Canada have hired Monty Desai as head coach- <a href=\"https:\/\/cricketcanada.org\/cricket-canada-monty-desai-is-our-head-coach\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as announced on their web page<\/a>.<br \/>\nDesai was head coach for Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals from 2008 to 2013, then continued as a batting coach for three more years (the team was then suspended due to anti-corruption concerns).<\/p>\n<p>He has completed Level 3 coaching and has worked as a batting coach with Afghanistan and Nepal. most recently, he was head coach of the Andhra Pradesh State cricket team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/syed-mushtaq-ali-trophy-2015-16\/content\/story\/963793.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cricinfo profile from 2015-16<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket Canada have hired Monty Desai as head coach- as announced on their web page. Desai was head coach for Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals from 2008 to 2013, then continued as a batting coach for three more years (the team was then suspended due to anti-corruption concerns). He has completed Level 3 coaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347"}],"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=12347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12348,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions\/12348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}