{"id":3052,"date":"2012-05-12T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T08:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2012-05-12T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T08:56:29","slug":"pakistan-cricket-stars-a-no-show-at-rogers-centre-toronto-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan cricket stars a no-show at Rogers Centre (Toronto Star)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faraz Sarwat reports for the Star<br \/>\nCricket fans who paid up to $200 for tickets to the Asia XI vs. International XI Twenty20 match at the Rogers Centre on Saturday have been robbed of the main attraction. Six star players from the powerhouse Pakistan national team, slated to play for the Asia XI, will not be on hand, including captain Misbah-ul-Haq, Saeed Ajmal, the world\u2019s best spin bowler, and Shahid (Boom Boom) Afridi, one of the most popular cricketers on the planet.<br \/>\nNeil Manthorp, a South African cricket journalist who has been working with Kat Rose on the match, spoke at a press conference on Friday.\u201cThe reason the Pakistani players remained on the roster is because we were making every effort to get them here, including talking to the PCB and through diplomatic channels as well,\u201d Manthorp said. \u201cUntil it became logistically impossible to get them here on time, we did not give up. \u201cThe absence of the Pakistanis is a massive disappointment \u2014 we would have loved to have Shahid Afridi here, but no name is bigger than the game.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sports\/cricket\/article\/1177408--pakistan-cricket-stars-a-no-show-at-rogers-centre\" target=\"_blank\"> Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile a media advisory states The Honourable Bal Gosal, Minister of State (Sport), will attend the match. The game will be carried live on Sportsnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faraz Sarwat reports for the Star Cricket fans who paid up to $200 for tickets to the Asia XI vs. International XI Twenty20 match at the Rogers Centre on Saturday have been robbed of the main attraction. Six star players from the powerhouse Pakistan national team, slated to play for the Asia XI, will not [&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\/3052"}],"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=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}