{"id":2942,"date":"2012-04-26T05:48:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T09:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2012-04-26T05:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T09:18:24","slug":"canada-cricket-coach-resigns-after-just-seven-months-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2942","title":{"rendered":"Canada cricket coach resigns after just seven months on the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Davidson writes in the Globe and Mail:-<br \/>\nLess than seven months after hiring its last coach, Cricket Canada is once again looking for someone to take the national team to the next level. Canada&#8217;s cricket journey will likely stall somewhat in the short-term as the sport&#8217;s governing body looks to replace Australian Michael Dighton, whose surprise resignation was announced Wednesday.Change has been the one constant at Cricket Canada in recent years, on and off the field.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFamily seems to have been a deciding issue. Dighton&#8217;s wife and children remained in Australia.<br \/>\n\u201cHe made the determination that his focus need to be on his family at this time and we totally understand that,\u201d said Cricket Canada president Ravin Moorthy.<br \/>\n\u201cHe has young kids and I know he would talk about them quite a bit,\u201d echoed Canadian batsman Jimmy Hansra. \u201cThat did bother him a bit being away from family this long.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/more-sports\/canada-cricket-coach-resigns-after-just-seven-months-on-the-job\/article2413477\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Davidson writes in the Globe and Mail:- Less than seven months after hiring its last coach, Cricket Canada is once again looking for someone to take the national team to the next level. Canada&#8217;s cricket journey will likely stall somewhat in the short-term as the sport&#8217;s governing body looks to replace Australian Michael Dighton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942"}],"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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}