{"id":2961,"date":"2012-04-29T05:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T09:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2012-04-29T05:45:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T09:15:59","slug":"rogers-centre-t20-update-from-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Centre T20 &#8211; update from NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Lawton reporting for Fairfax News in New Zealand talked to  Jacob Oram about the scheduled all-star match.<\/p>\n<p>Allrounder Oram confirmed last night he&#8217;d been approached and said he was &#8220;99.99 per cent&#8221; sure the one-off T20 would go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have my flights and logistical stuff sorted out yet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But basically, it&#8217;s a one-off Twenty20 match in Toronto and an Asian XI will be taking on a World XI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s part promotional and about taking the game to a minnow country but there will have to be benefits in it for the organisers and sponsors. I know they are looking to play it at the Rogers Centre, which is under a dome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a pretty cool experience. There are contracts and it&#8217;s not a cowboyish situation,&#8221; Oram said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/cricket\/6824472\/Black-Caps-trio-fit-for-T20-in-Canada\" target=\"_blank\"> Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Lawton reporting for Fairfax News in New Zealand talked to Jacob Oram about the scheduled all-star match. Allrounder Oram confirmed last night he&#8217;d been approached and said he was &#8220;99.99 per cent&#8221; sure the one-off T20 would go ahead. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have my flights and logistical stuff sorted out yet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But basically, [&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\/2961"}],"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=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}