{"id":2686,"date":"2012-03-18T07:06:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2012-03-19T07:06:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T10:36:56","slug":"canadas-qualifying-hopes-take-blow-nigel-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2686","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s qualifying hopes take blow (Nigel Reed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Sportsnet<br \/>\n&#8220;Strength in depth is one of the hallmarks of any successful team. It is an assurance of quality which runs from top to bottom and front to back. It&#8217;s make-up, as a result, commands respect from an opponent who knows there are no weak links in the chain.<br \/>\nCanada ran into such a team on Day 5 of qualifying for the ICC World T20s. Afghanistan is making a name for itself in world cricket and, outside the elite Full Members club, has rapidly risen to become a leading light among the Associates and Affiliates.<br \/>\nMany observers believed the Afghans to be among the favourites going into this tournament. Thus far, their predictions are spot on. A convincing 41-run victory over Canada has already guaranteed Afghanistan a place in the Super Six playoffs with two games to spare.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citytv.com\/toronto\/citynews\/sports\/article\/194213--reed-on-cricket-qualifying-blow-for-canada\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sportsnet &#8220;Strength in depth is one of the hallmarks of any successful team. It is an assurance of quality which runs from top to bottom and front to back. It&#8217;s make-up, as a result, commands respect from an opponent who knows there are no weak links in the chain. Canada ran into such a [&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\/2686"}],"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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}