{"id":13936,"date":"2025-07-24T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13936"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:06:07","slug":"cbc-brampton-wont-host-international-gt20-cricket-tournament-this-year-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13936","title":{"rendered":"CBC: Brampton won&#8217;t host international GT20 cricket tournament this year, mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Muriel Draaisma<\/p>\n<p>An international cricket tournament that was set to take place in Brampton will not happen this year, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown says.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who has called Brampton the &#8220;cricket capital of Canada,&#8221; confirmed the cancellation of the GT20 in an interview with CBC Radio&#8217;s Here and Now this week. Organizers have said the tournament last year attracted tens of thousands of attendees and 150 million worldwide TV viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Brown said the cancellation is a &#8220;setback&#8221; because it means there won&#8217;t be international cricket stars playing the game in Brampton this year, but he has high hopes for the future of the sport in the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/gt20-cricket-tournament-brampton-not-this-summer-1.7589244\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Muriel Draaisma An international cricket tournament that was set to take place in Brampton will not happen this year, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown says. Brown, who has called Brampton the &#8220;cricket capital of Canada,&#8221; confirmed the cancellation of the GT20 in an interview with CBC Radio&#8217;s Here and Now this week. Organizers have said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936"}],"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=13936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13937,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions\/13937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}