{"id":3681,"date":"2012-09-15T06:48:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T10:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2012-09-15T06:48:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T10:18:49","slug":"from-rinks-of-canada-to-wickets-of-gloucestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3681","title":{"rendered":"From rinks of Canada to wickets of Gloucestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Gloucester Echo features young Canadian Naeem Bardai<br \/>\n&#8220;WHEN Naeem Bardai realised he was not going to achieve his dream of playing for the Montreal Canadiens in Canada&#8217;s NHL, he knew drastic action was needed. So he switched sports and countries to play local cricket at Hatherley and Reddings in Cheltenham instead. Some adjustment was needed leaving a country of glorious, snowy mountain peaks to Cheltenham, with its views of the Leckhampton Hill, but Bardai settled in well. The wicketkeeper once dreamed, like many young sport-loving Canadians, of becoming one of the greatest ice hockey players in the National Hockey League but he has followed his father&#8217;s footsteps in pursuing a love for cricket.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk\/rinks-Canada-wickets-Gloucestershire\/story-16909472-detail\/story.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Gloucester Echo features young Canadian Naeem Bardai &#8220;WHEN Naeem Bardai realised he was not going to achieve his dream of playing for the Montreal Canadiens in Canada&#8217;s NHL, he knew drastic action was needed. So he switched sports and countries to play local cricket at Hatherley and Reddings in Cheltenham instead. Some adjustment [&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\/3681"}],"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=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3682,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}