{"id":2565,"date":"2012-02-17T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T11:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2012-02-17T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T11:49:22","slug":"toronto-cricket-match-will-pit-asia-vs-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"Toronto cricket match will pit Asia vs. the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Christie<br \/>\nTORONTO\u2014 From Friday&#8217;s Globe and Mail<br \/>\nThe most talented international cricketers to play under a Canadian roof in almost 20 years \u2013 a mixture of legends and up-and-comers \u2013 will meet at Rogers Centre on May 12 in an all-star match that organizers hope will be at catalyst to move the sport into the Canadian psyche.<br \/>\n\u201cWe got the idea from watching NBA and NHL all-star games and we\u2019re putting together a couple of good teams, one representing Asia and one International,\u201d said Herb Choga, president of Kat Rose Inc., which is promoting the event with Cricket Canada.<br \/>\nCanada\u2019s national squad will not play, although two Canadians \u2013 wicketkeeper Ashish Bagai, 30, and top-of-the-order batsman Rizwan Cheema, 33 \u2013 were among players picked for the International XI Thursday.<br \/>\n\u201cThe proceeds from this game will go toward the development of the sport in Canada,\u201d said Ingleton Liburd, operations officer for Cricket Canada and a former national captain.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/more-sports\/toronto-match-will-pit-asia-vs-the-world\/article2341332\/\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Christie TORONTO\u2014 From Friday&#8217;s Globe and Mail The most talented international cricketers to play under a Canadian roof in almost 20 years \u2013 a mixture of legends and up-and-comers \u2013 will meet at Rogers Centre on May 12 in an all-star match that organizers hope will be at catalyst to move the sport into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565"}],"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=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}