{"id":13268,"date":"2020-05-12T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13268"},"modified":"2020-05-12T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:35:14","slug":"whanganuis-canadian-allrounder-akash-gill-named-hawke-cup-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13268","title":{"rendered":"Whanganui&#8217;s Canadian allrounder Akash Gill named Hawke Cup player of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DSC_7618-Akash-Gill-w-name-e1516369893272.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DSC_7618-Akash-Gill-w-name-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a>From the\u00a0Whanganui Chronicle (NZ):-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gill, who has played in Whanganui since the 2016-17 summer, and now qualifies as a local player instead of an overseas guest, has benefitted immensely from constant cricket seasons through the Canadian-New Zealand exchange set up by former Cricket Wanganui general manager Dilan Raj.<\/p>\n<p>He has represented the Canada at ICC Under 19 World Cup level and in his last northern summer joined the Edmonton Royals in the Global T20 Canada tournament for July-August, playing alongside the likes of Black Caps Kane Williamson and Jimmy Neesham, along with South African skipper Faf du Plessis in the professional league.<\/p>\n<p>Gill returned to Whanganui after the Global tournament to step up as one of the leading allrounders in the Wanganui XI for their Furlong Cup games against Manawatu, Hawke&#8217;s Bay, Wairarapa, Taranaki and Horowhenua-Kapiti.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/wanganui-chronicle\/sport\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1503424&amp;objectid=12330870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0Whanganui Chronicle (NZ):- &#8220;Gill, who has played in Whanganui since the 2016-17 summer, and now qualifies as a local player instead of an overseas guest, has benefitted immensely from constant cricket seasons through the Canadian-New Zealand exchange set up by former Cricket Wanganui general manager Dilan Raj. He has represented the Canada at ICC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268"}],"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=13268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13269,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions\/13269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}