{"id":4223,"date":"2013-04-25T03:10:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T06:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2013-04-25T03:10:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T06:40:42","slug":"youth-cricket-goes-mainstream-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4223","title":{"rendered":"Youth cricket goes mainstream in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Grewal writes in the Toronto Star:-<br \/>\nIt may be the best thing that\u2019s ever happened for cricket\u2019s future in the GTA: a bunch of white kids, many of them baseball players, from an upscale neighbourhood beating Toronto\u2019s powerhouse school teams.<br \/>\nAnd with Wednesday\u2019s announcement of the Mayor\u2019s School Cricket Tournament expanding to four cities across the GTA, many insiders might secretly be hoping that Lambton-Kingsway Middle School in Etobicoke wins it all this year.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was shocking. We came back and people couldn\u2019t believe we won,\u201d says Dilhan Kuru, one of the school\u2019s coaches, recalling the reaction after his team won its division championship last year, following their loss in the finals of the Mayor\u2019s Tournament.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2013\/04\/24\/youth_cricket_goes_mainstream_across_the_gta.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Grewal writes in the Toronto Star:- It may be the best thing that\u2019s ever happened for cricket\u2019s future in the GTA: a bunch of white kids, many of them baseball players, from an upscale neighbourhood beating Toronto\u2019s powerhouse school teams. And with Wednesday\u2019s announcement of the Mayor\u2019s School Cricket Tournament expanding to four cities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223"}],"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=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}