{"id":1607,"date":"2011-06-16T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2011-06-16T06:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T10:12:37","slug":"nova-scotia-athlete-of-the-week-hari-krishnan-raghuraman-chronicle-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia Athlete of the week: Hari Krishnan Raghuraman (Chronicle Herald)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARI KRISHNAN RAGHURAMAN<br \/>\nSPORT: Cricket<br \/>\nAGE: 24<br \/>\nSCHOOL: Dalhousie University, Masters in Biological engineering.<br \/>\nHOMETOWN: Chennai, India (residing in Halifax)<br \/>\nHOW HE GOT INVOLVED IN SPORTS: Cricket has been Raghuraman\u2019s passion since early childhood. He started playing serious cricket at the age of 11 and represented the city of Chennai at age of 12 in under-15s and the state at the age of 16 in under-19s.<br \/>\n<!--more-->SPORT ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Raghuraman is currently playing for the Nova Scotia cricket team and had been invited to play for Canada\u2019s national cricket A-team last year. Received most valuable player award in last year\u2019s inter-provincial tournament, best batsmen in Halifax league tournament and was awarded three man of the match awards last year. COACH COMMENT: &#8220;Hari is an exceptionally talented cricketer. He is very correct technically but also possesses power and aggression when batting. He is a level-headed individual with a good sense of humour and great team spirit, all of this makes him an asset for any team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tushar Sehgal<\/p>\n<p>ATHLETE COMMENT: &#8220;All I wanted to do from childhood is to play cricket. I enjoy every aspect of the game irrespective of what I do in the field. I also gave equal importance to my education which brought me here to Halifax. I\u2019m very proud and happy to be a part of the Nova Scotia Cricket Association and look forward to represent the national team some day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARI KRISHNAN RAGHURAMAN SPORT: Cricket AGE: 24 SCHOOL: Dalhousie University, Masters in Biological engineering. HOMETOWN: Chennai, India (residing in Halifax) HOW HE GOT INVOLVED IN SPORTS: Cricket has been Raghuraman\u2019s passion since early childhood. He started playing serious cricket at the age of 11 and represented the city of Chennai at age of 12 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}