{"id":13954,"date":"2025-11-28T17:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13954"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:48:41","slug":"toronto-sunvery-tough-draw-for-us-says-cricket-coach-liburd-as-canada-placed-in-group-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13954","title":{"rendered":"[Toronto Sun]:&#8217;Very tough draw for us,\u2019 says cricket coach Liburd as Canada placed in Group of Death:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the toughest group in next year\u2019s World Twenty20 Cup to be played in India \u2014 the centre of where this game revolves \u2014 and Sri Lanka, the island at the bottom of that vast country.<\/p>\n<p>And as luck would have it, Canada has been placed in this Group of Death that will be topped by Test nations South Africa (No. 5), New Zealand (No. 4) and Afghanistan (No 10).<\/p>\n<p>Making up the rest will be associate teams Canada, ranked 18th, and the United Arab Emirates (No.16).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/sports\/other-sports\/very-tough-draw-canada-cricket-group-of-death\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the toughest group in next year\u2019s World Twenty20 Cup to be played in India \u2014 the centre of where this game revolves \u2014 and Sri Lanka, the island at the bottom of that vast country. And as luck would have it, Canada has been placed in this Group of Death that will be topped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954"}],"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=13954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13955,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954\/revisions\/13955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}