{"id":2915,"date":"2012-04-19T08:06:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T11:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2012-04-19T08:06:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T11:36:31","slug":"no-victory-for-democracy-cricinfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2915","title":{"rendered":"No victory for democracy (CricInfo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Williamson writes for CricInfo on the recent USACA elections. Cricket in our neighbours is in administrative turmoil, and Williamson suggests the recent election heralds no improvement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The news that Gladstone Dainty has won a landslide in the USA Cricket Association elections is about as surprising as Robert Mugabe emerging victorious in this year&#8217;s presidential elections in Zimbabwe. Even Mugabe would give a respectful nod at the way Dainty managed to ensure many of those opposing him were either denied a vote or effectively totally maginalised. Only 15 of the 47 leagues were deemed eligible to take part in the elections. Many of those shut out had recently vociferously opposed the way USACA was operating.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/usa\/content\/current\/story\/561717.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Williamson writes for CricInfo on the recent USACA elections. Cricket in our neighbours is in administrative turmoil, and Williamson suggests the recent election heralds no improvement &#8220;The news that Gladstone Dainty has won a landslide in the USA Cricket Association elections is about as surprising as Robert Mugabe emerging victorious in this year&#8217;s presidential [&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\/2915"}],"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=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}