{"id":2635,"date":"2012-03-14T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2012-03-14T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:48:13","slug":"michael-dighton-on-the-matches-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"Michael Dighton on the matches to date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thanks to Rathan Moothy for facilitating this.<\/div>\n<div>Game 1 vs Netherlands<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;An ordinary start. We missed some half opportunities in the field that need to be taken if we are serious about qualifying for the T20WC, our bowlers fought hard but we conceeded 25 off the last 2 overs which hurt and gave them the momentum. We were 3\/24 after 6 overs and it was always going to be a battle from there. Hansra and Baidwan played well but needed to be there towards the end for us to be any chance of winning. Onwards and Upwards.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Game 2 vs PNG<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;A fighting win against a much improved PNG side. Kumar played very\u00a0well and showed what he is capable of. There were cameos along the way but I thought that a par score was 170 on that wicket and that outfield. The beauty of the win was the room for improvement with the ball and in the field. Again we missed some chances that should have been taken and\u00a0we were a bowler down with an injury to Baidwan sustained\u00a0whilst batting. Henry changed his pace up well and Cheema held his nerve in the final over. Manny &#8220;DB&#8221; Aulakh took a great catch to dismiss Jones, effectively killing the game.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Rathan Moothy for facilitating this. Game 1 vs Netherlands &#8220;An ordinary start. We missed some half opportunities in the field that need to be taken if we are serious about qualifying for the T20WC, our bowlers fought hard but we conceeded 25 off the last 2 overs which hurt and gave them the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635"}],"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=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}