{"id":3067,"date":"2012-05-15T07:34:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T11:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2012-05-15T08:20:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T11:50:45","slug":"cricket-stars-fume-wait-to-be-paid-for-toronto-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3067","title":{"rendered":"Cricket stars fume, wait to be paid for Toronto event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBC is reporting that participants in Saturday&#8217;s T20 exhibition are still awaiting payment.<\/p>\n<p>..while the players put on a good game in Toronto, several suggested to CBC News that they would be unlikely to return to Canada any time soon as a result of the non-payment issue.\u00a0\u201cIt is not good for Canada and not good for Canada and cricket,\u201d said Sanath Jayasuriya, a veteran player from Sri Lanka who spoke to CBC News about the situation.\u00a0Jayasuriya said he was to receive $15,000 to play in Toronto, as well as additional funds to cover his flight from Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the piece Cricket Canada CEO Doug Hannum describes the situation as a &#8220;national embarrassment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/story\/2012\/05\/14\/toronto-cricket-match-players-payment.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story and video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC is reporting that participants in Saturday&#8217;s T20 exhibition are still awaiting payment. ..while the players put on a good game in Toronto, several suggested to CBC News that they would be unlikely to return to Canada any time soon as a result of the non-payment issue.\u00a0\u201cIt is not good for Canada and not good [&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\/3067"}],"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=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}