{"id":4432,"date":"2013-06-10T12:06:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2013-06-10T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:36:56","slug":"new-canadians-help-introduce-sport-to-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4432","title":{"rendered":"New Canadians help introduce sport to North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Aub\u00e9 writes for the Timmins Press<br \/>\nIt was basically Timmins\u2019 version of the Cricket World Cup. A ragtag, yet clearly talented team of local cricketers took on a slightly more experienced team visiting from North Bay at Fred Salvador Field. Though the scale of Saturday afternoon\u2019s matchup was considerably smaller than the World Cup, there was an undeniable sense of excitement in the air, both on the field and in the stands. Fans cheered as a North Bay bowler tried to whip a small yellow ball past a Timmins batsman. The bowler\u2019s goal: Strike down the wickets being protected by said batsman. The game was jointly organized by the Timmins and North Bay District Multicultural Centres, as well as the Timmins Local Immigration Partnership, to celebrate Diversity Day in the city.<br \/>\n\u201cOne of our biggest thing has been cricket, we started that a few months ago,\u201d said Jennifer Vachon, outreach intern at the Timmins Multicultural Centre. &#8220;This is going to be our first big game.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timminspress.com\/2013\/06\/09\/new-canadians-help-introduce-sport-to-north\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Aub\u00e9 writes for the Timmins Press It was basically Timmins\u2019 version of the Cricket World Cup. A ragtag, yet clearly talented team of local cricketers took on a slightly more experienced team visiting from North Bay at Fred Salvador Field. Though the scale of Saturday afternoon\u2019s matchup was considerably smaller than the World Cup, [&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\/4432"}],"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=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}