{"id":4014,"date":"2013-02-28T13:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2013-02-28T13:19:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T16:49:17","slug":"cricket-league-sports-new-look-with-competition-outside-toronto-markham-economist-and-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4014","title":{"rendered":"Cricket league sports new look with competition outside Toronto (Markham Economist and Sun)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Markham Softball Cricket League takes to the pitch this season it will feature a slightly different look.<br \/>\nThe club will be involved in a round-robin tournament and will face entries from the Brampton, Toronto and Mississauga cricket clubs.<br \/>\nThe matches will take place at the club\u2019s home pitch at Elson Park starting May 26 and continue each Sunday, capped off with the final July 5.<br \/>\nNigel Vasagam, Markham league founder, is excited with the new format as the circuit enters its 11th season.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s something different than what we\u2019ve done in the past. We\u2019re starting with a short, modified version with four softball cricket teams that aren\u2019t just from Toronto.\u201d<br \/>\nShould the format show promise, Vasagam hopes it might spur interest from other areas in the province to join next year.<br \/>\n\u201cI think we\u2019re getting there. Maybe next year we can get teams from places like Whitby, Ajax or even Oakville,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s intriguing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Markham Softball Cricket League takes to the pitch this season it will feature a slightly different look. The club will be involved in a round-robin tournament and will face entries from the Brampton, Toronto and Mississauga cricket clubs. The matches will take place at the club\u2019s home pitch at Elson Park starting May [&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\/4014"}],"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=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}