{"id":2950,"date":"2012-04-27T06:54:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T10:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2012-04-27T06:54:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T10:24:39","slug":"winnipeg-women-going-places-in-cricket-winnipeg-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2950","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg women going places in cricket (Winnipeg Sun)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garrick Kozier writes:-<br \/>\nPut your hand up if you knew the Canadian women\u2019s cricket team was playing in the ICC America\u2019s Division 1 Championships in the Cayman Islands this week. Keep that hand up if you knew two of the team\u2019s players are from Winnipeg. If your hand is still up, congratulations.  You know your cricket.<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t raise your hand once? You\u2019re probably not alone.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s just that cricket doesn\u2019t have the following in Canada that it does elsewhere in the world. That\u2019s something Winnipeg\u2019s Vijayani Vithanage has learned since migrating to Canada when she was 15.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s the No. 1 sport in Sri Lanka,\u201d said Vithanage, who\u2019s on her first tour with the national team. \u201cSri Lanka is one of the top three nations in the world which plays cricket. We follow it like a religion back home.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegsun.com\/2012\/04\/26\/winnipeg-women-going-places-in-cricket\" target=\"_blank\"> Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrick Kozier writes:- Put your hand up if you knew the Canadian women\u2019s cricket team was playing in the ICC America\u2019s Division 1 Championships in the Cayman Islands this week. Keep that hand up if you knew two of the team\u2019s players are from Winnipeg. If your hand is still up, congratulations. You know your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950"}],"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=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}