{"id":14000,"date":"2026-07-25T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=14000"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:45:14","slug":"guelphtoday-comguelph-cricket-clubs-say-lack-of-pitches-threatens-sports-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=14000","title":{"rendered":"[GuelphToday.com]:Guelph cricket clubs say lack of pitches threatens sport\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Santana Bellantoni<br \/>\nGuelph cricket clubs worry if they don&#8217;t get more cricket pitches to play on there won\u2019t be a next generation of cricket players in the city.<br \/>\nIf nothing changes in the next five years the Guelph Cricket Club says it will fold.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will end the club,\u201d said Sarabjeet Narang, founding member and president of the Guelph Cricket Club.<br \/>\nHe is 54-years-old and instead of playing, he should be retiring from the sport.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m not getting enough young generation to take the lead, so eventually I will have to stop,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThere isn\u2019t a lack of interest in youth wanting to learn the sport, just not enough places and bookings available to train them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guelphtoday.com\/pursuit\/guelph-cricket-clubs-say-lack-of-pitches-threatens-sports-future-12526002\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guelph cricket clubs worry if they don&#8217;t get more cricket pitches to play on there won\u2019t be a next generation of cricket players in the city.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing changes in the next five years the Guelph Cricket Club says it will fold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will end the club,\u201d said Sarabjeet Narang, founding member and president of the Guelph Cricket Club.<\/p>\n<p>He is 54-years-old and instead of playing, he should be retiring from the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not getting enough young generation to take the lead, so eventually I will have to stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000"}],"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=14000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14002,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000\/revisions\/14002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}