{"id":13188,"date":"2020-01-23T07:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T10:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13188"},"modified":"2020-01-23T07:19:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T10:49:45","slug":"more-cricket-pitches-needed-in-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13188","title":{"rendered":"More cricket pitches needed in BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Provnice<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a sticky wicket: More-and-more kids are playing cricket in Surrey, but there\u2019s less-and-less room for all of them, and the adults, who enjoy the ancient bat-and-ball game.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of Tuesday, Jan. 22, Inamul Desai hoped to change that.<\/p>\n<p>The vice-president of the B.C. Mainland Cricket League (BCMCL) was scheduled to appear at 5:30 p.m. before Surrey\u2019s parks, recreation and culture committee appealing for more cricket fields and practice areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year we had 2,200 people registered to play cricket (from Kelowna to West Vancouver),\u201d Desai said. \u201cThat\u2019s documented players. When I\u2019m driving by I see so many people playing the game and I have no idea who they are. They aren\u2019t part of an organized league or club and there must be another 1,000 of them or more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurrey has been very good to us, but we\u2019ve been caught off-guard with the demand and we need more.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/news\/surrey-cricketers-make-pitch-for-more-fields-in-wake-of-burgeoning-numbers-taking-up-game\/wcm\/8f8d9952-1e3d-4eca-8337-efb31ace0ce1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Provnice It\u2019s a sticky wicket: More-and-more kids are playing cricket in Surrey, but there\u2019s less-and-less room for all of them, and the adults, who enjoy the ancient bat-and-ball game. On the night of Tuesday, Jan. 22, Inamul Desai hoped to change that. The vice-president of the B.C. Mainland Cricket League (BCMCL) was scheduled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188"}],"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=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13189,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions\/13189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}