{"id":2551,"date":"2012-02-12T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2012-02-12T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T10:56:12","slug":"zoombats-profiled-on-cricinfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2551","title":{"rendered":"Zoombats profiled on CricInfo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Herringshaw profiles Mark Warburton&#8217;s Canadian batmaking business for CricInfo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In continental North America, a region more than 20 million square kilometres in size, populated by well over 450 million people*, Warburton is likely the only living soul who hand-makes cricket bats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know of no others,&#8221; he says, wryly. &#8220;My supplier has told me that he&#8217;s not sending willow to anybody else, so I think it&#8217;s just me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even most Canadian cricket fans are unaware of his existence. &#8220;Bat distributors, we have aplenty,&#8221; one friend assured me, &#8220;but bat-makers, we don&#8217;t have.&#8221; So what got Warburton started in such a seemingly thankless task?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/magazine\/content\/story\/552924.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Herringshaw profiles Mark Warburton&#8217;s Canadian batmaking business for CricInfo. &#8220;In continental North America, a region more than 20 million square kilometres in size, populated by well over 450 million people*, Warburton is likely the only living soul who hand-makes cricket bats. &#8220;I know of no others,&#8221; he says, wryly. &#8220;My supplier has told me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551"}],"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=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}