{"id":12832,"date":"2019-07-14T07:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T11:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=12832"},"modified":"2019-07-14T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T11:13:49","slug":"ubc-researchers-use-algorithms-to-produce-affordable-cricket-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=12832","title":{"rendered":"UBC researchers use algorithms to produce affordable cricket bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CBC:-<br \/>\nBC forestry professor Phil Evans is leading a project that uses an algorithm to design a cricket bat that&#8217;s cheaper to produce but just as powerful as the one used by professional cricketers. <\/p>\n<p>Evans said his aim is to see a high-quality cricket bat in the hands of every aspiring cricketer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In India alone hundreds of thousands of kids play cricket and idolize cricketers, and they want a bat that resembles the one that cricketers are using,&#8221; said Evans who spoke to CBC from Australia. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to use cheaper material but we don&#8217;t want to give them a bat that&#8217;s not a good one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/ubc-researcher-affordable-cricket-bat-algorithm-1.5210911\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBC:- BC forestry professor Phil Evans is leading a project that uses an algorithm to design a cricket bat that&#8217;s cheaper to produce but just as powerful as the one used by professional cricketers. Evans said his aim is to see a high-quality cricket bat in the hands of every aspiring cricketer. &#8220;In India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832"}],"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=12832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12833,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions\/12833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}