{"id":4131,"date":"2013-03-27T09:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T12:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2013-03-27T09:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T12:51:34","slug":"canadian-cricket-staying-strong-despite-underfunding-toronto-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4131","title":{"rendered":"Canadian cricket staying strong despite underfunding (Toronto Observer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian national team gathers in a small, dark, windowless warehouse. Not exactly what you would expect for the country\u2019s best cricket players. Yet this is the winter home for our cricket team. Behind a suburban plaza at the corner of Markham and Ellesmere roads in Scarborough is where they train.<br \/>\n Rathan Moorthy, Cricket Canada\u2019s brand and marketing manager, is trying to raise awareness and support for the program.<br \/>\n\u201cThis sport is tremendously underfunded in this country and we received close to about $78,000, so just under $80,000 of base funding from Sport Canada,\u201d Moorthy said. In comparison, the Canadian Soccer Association received $3,459,500 from Sport Canada, according to the Department of Canadian Heritage. Only Ski Canada and The Peres Centre for Peace received less.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/torontoobserver.ca\/2013\/03\/26\/canadian-cricket-staying-strong-despite-underfunding\/\">Full story and video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian national team gathers in a small, dark, windowless warehouse. Not exactly what you would expect for the country\u2019s best cricket players. Yet this is the winter home for our cricket team. Behind a suburban plaza at the corner of Markham and Ellesmere roads in Scarborough is where they train. Rathan Moorthy, Cricket Canada\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131"}],"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=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}