{"id":13040,"date":"2019-10-14T07:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13040"},"modified":"2019-10-14T07:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:52:24","slug":"nitish-kumar-when-you-play-associate-cricket-you-are-playing-with-your-life-on-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13040","title":{"rendered":"Nitish Kumar: &#8220;When you play associate cricket, you are playing with your life on the line&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nitish Kumar interviewed by Nick Friend for &#8220;The Cricketer&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cWhen you play associate cricket, you are playing under so much pressure because your life is on the line,\u201d Kumar says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t qualify there\u2019s no money. If there\u2019s no money, there\u2019s no cricket. With all those tournaments, they are one-offs. You play five games. There were a few instances we\u2019d be the top team through the tournament, but then on the last day through net run rate you don\u2019t even qualify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never really thought the tournaments are a great setup. As an associate cricketer, you\u2019re basically putting three years of cricket \u2013 and three years as a cricketer \u2013 on the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt only takes one bad game to not qualify because you play each team once. You either go on a run or if you have a poor game then you don\u2019t have cricket for three years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecricketer.com\/Topics\/banner\/nitish_kumar_canada_cricket_interview_world_cup_qualifier_associate.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitish Kumar interviewed by Nick Friend for &#8220;The Cricketer&#8221; \u201cWhen you play associate cricket, you are playing under so much pressure because your life is on the line,\u201d Kumar says. \u201cIf you don\u2019t qualify there\u2019s no money. If there\u2019s no money, there\u2019s no cricket. With all those tournaments, they are one-offs. You play five games. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8399,"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\/13040"}],"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=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13041,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions\/13041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}