{"id":13181,"date":"2020-01-16T07:49:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2020-01-16T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T14:09:52","slug":"ambitious-canadians-fly-south-for-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13181","title":{"rendered":"Ambitious Canadians fly South for the winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Skinner profiles the U19s for Emerging Cricket:-<br \/>\n&#8220;Speaking to Emerging Cricket, coach Farooq Kirmani explained that the squad has been training indoors since October, with the weather simply too cold to play outside. A creditable performance in their first warmup match against the West Indies showed positive signs, but a demolition job at the hands of Australia brought them crashing back to reality. Questions also remain over an approach to preparation that has seen the squad go months without a competitive match. In November Canada was invited to participate in CWI\u2019s regional 50-over tournament, affording them an opportunity to give the U19s some valuable game time against quality opposition. Instead, Cricket Canada opted to send a development squad devoid of any current age group players (though oddly enough 2018 alumnus Arslan Khan was included). A puzzling decision, and one which Kirmani acknowledges was a missed opportunity: \u201cThat\u2019s a very important question and I am not in a position to answer that but yes, some of the U19 players should have gone.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emergingcricket.com\/events\/u19-world-cup\/ambitious-canadians-fly-south-for-the-winter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Skinner profiles the U19s for Emerging Cricket:- &#8220;Speaking to Emerging Cricket, coach Farooq Kirmani explained that the squad has been training indoors since October, with the weather simply too cold to play outside. A creditable performance in their first warmup match against the West Indies showed positive signs, but a demolition job at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181"}],"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=13181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13183,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181\/revisions\/13183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}