{"id":13485,"date":"2021-05-29T06:45:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T10:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13485"},"modified":"2021-05-29T06:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T10:15:40","slug":"ottawa-cricket-fans-make-pitch-for-new-places-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13485","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa cricket fans make pitch for new places to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uday Rana for CBC<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, the city embarked on a second round of consultations on a plan to revamp its parks and recreation facilities, including two new cricket pitches. Cricket enthusiasts, especially Ottawa&#8217;s South Asian communities, are thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>Akber Hussain grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, a megacity known to produce some of cricket&#8217;s tallest legends. When he moved to Canada in 1996, he kept his love of the game alive, and has now passed cricket culture on to his children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up watching and playing cricket. I want the same for my kids. If they get facilities, I&#8217;m sure they will be able to play good cricket,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>But Hussain and his family live west of Kanata, with no cricket ground close to home.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/cricket-ottawa-city-council-pitch-ontario-south-asian-1.6038875\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uday Rana for CBC On Wednesday, the city embarked on a second round of consultations on a plan to revamp its parks and recreation facilities, including two new cricket pitches. Cricket enthusiasts, especially Ottawa&#8217;s South Asian communities, are thrilled. Akber Hussain grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, a megacity known to produce some of cricket&#8217;s tallest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13485"}],"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=13485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13486,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13485\/revisions\/13486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}