{"id":12620,"date":"2019-05-17T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=12620"},"modified":"2019-05-17T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:19:18","slug":"canada-women-take-on-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=12620","title":{"rendered":"Canada women lose to USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national women&#8217;s team were outclassed by the USA today in the first of a best of three T20 series to determine who advances to World Cup qualifiers, losing by 10 wickets. The games are taking place in Florida.<br \/>\nCanada batted first, and made a disappointing 66\/6 from 20 overs. After losing a wicket from the second ball of the match, Perera and Mirchandani put on 51, but took 16 overs to do it. 14 year-old Lisa Ramjit took 2\/5 in 4 overs. In response the USA got off to a flier against some erratic bowling, reaching 41 without loss after 6 overs, led by some powerful hitting from Erica Rendler and helped by some wides and mis-fields. The game was all over in 10 overs, Rendler finishing on 47 not out.<br \/>\nCanada were outplayed &#8211; long time observer of US cricket Peter Della Penna commented on Twitter<br \/>\n&#8220;Gulf between USA &#038; Canada appears monumental. For all the crying that was made north of the border when USA was given a wildcard in 2017 to appear in the &#8220;Americas\/Europe Qualifier&#8221; with Scotland and Netherlands, Canada&#8217;s solution apparently was to sit on their hands for 2 years.&#8221;<br \/>\nHarsh words, and the team has an opportunity to prove them wrong tomorrow.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/19252\/game\/1183855\/united-states-of-america-women-vs-canada-women-1st-t20i-icc-womens-t20-world-cup-americas-region-qualifier-2019\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CricInfo scorecard<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fdv88XpUYvs\">Live stream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national women&#8217;s team were outclassed by the USA today in the first of a best of three T20 series to determine who advances to World Cup qualifiers, losing by 10 wickets. The games are taking place in Florida. Canada batted first, and made a disappointing 66\/6 from 20 overs. After losing a wicket from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620"}],"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=12620"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12637,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions\/12637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}