{"id":3365,"date":"2012-07-12T07:25:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2012-07-12T07:25:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:55:05","slug":"pakistani-cricket-player-calls-port-hope-home-northumberland-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3365","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani cricket player calls Port Hope home (Northumberland News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Rafay Ahmed, cricket is the best game to play in world.  But the 17-year-old Trinity College School (TCS) student from Pakistan said the global sport could be confusing to those who don&#8217;t know the rules.<br \/>\n&#8220;(Cricket) is the most alien sport to those who don&#8217;t know how to play it,&#8221; said Ahmed, who first picked up a cricket bat and ball at the age of four. &#8220;My older brothers both played (cricket), so as soon as I was strong enough to hold a bat in my hand, they started teaching me how to play.&#8221; And the teachings of his older brothers have paid off. Ahmed captained the Trinity College School Bigside Bears cricket team to a first-place finish in the Conference of Independent Schools Athletic Association (CISAA).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandnews.com\/sports\/article\/1375582--pakistani-cricket-player-calls-port-hope-home\" target=\"_blank\"> Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Rafay Ahmed, cricket is the best game to play in world. But the 17-year-old Trinity College School (TCS) student from Pakistan said the global sport could be confusing to those who don&#8217;t know the rules. &#8220;(Cricket) is the most alien sport to those who don&#8217;t know how to play it,&#8221; said Ahmed, who first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365"}],"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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}