{"id":13466,"date":"2021-04-06T06:45:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T10:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13466"},"modified":"2021-04-06T06:45:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T10:15:42","slug":"a-chat-with-rohan-jayasekera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13466","title":{"rendered":"A chat with Rohan Jayasekera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R Silva for the Nation<br \/>\n&#8221; played for Canada from 1983 to 2006. A lot of Sri Lankan club cricketers and players from the West Indies come here to play. I observe that the West Indians particularly are not involved in the game very seriously here. During the late 80s, Canada had very good team.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very large country and getting a team together is also very tough. There is lack of Test facilities as well. Those factors hindered Canada reaching the Test level. &#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.lk\/online\/a-chat-with-rohan-jayasekera-sri-lanka-test-batsman-during-early-1980s-71214.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R Silva for the Nation &#8221; played for Canada from 1983 to 2006. A lot of Sri Lankan club cricketers and players from the West Indies come here to play. I observe that the West Indians particularly are not involved in the game very seriously here. During the late 80s, Canada had very good team. [&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\/13466"}],"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=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13467,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}