{"id":13903,"date":"2025-04-04T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13903"},"modified":"2025-04-04T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:19:29","slug":"the-royal-gazette-canada-captain-arrested-over-drugs-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13903","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Gazette: Canada captain arrested over drugs charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Cricket Canada must make some decisions as it is being widely reported that the captain of the Men&#8217;s team has been arrested in Barbados. This continues a difficult start to 2025 for the organization and the latest news does not help with the acquisition and retention of corporate sponsorship.]<\/p>\n<p>by Colin Thompson<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of Canada cricket captain Nicholas Kirton has sent shock waves through the ICC Americas region and put into doubt his participation against Bermuda in a few weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was also announced this week as an international signing for the second edition of the Bermuda Smash Invitational in June.<\/p>\n<p>According to overseas media reports, the Barbadian-born star was held by police at Grantley Adams International Airport on Sunday after arriving in his homeland on an Air Canada flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalgazette.com\/cricket\/sport\/article\/20250403\/canada-captain-arrested-over-drugs-charges\/\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cricket Canada must make some decisions as it is being widely reported that the captain of the Men&#8217;s team has been arrested in Barbados. This continues a difficult start to 2025 for the organization and the latest news does not help with the acquisition and retention of corporate sponsorship.] by Colin Thompson The arrest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13906,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions\/13906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}