{"id":4457,"date":"2013-06-18T07:41:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T11:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2013-06-18T07:41:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T11:11:36","slug":"canadian-ultimate-cricket-fan-on-trip-to-champions-trophy-national-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=4457","title":{"rendered":"Canadian ultimate cricket fan on trip to Champions trophy (National Post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket fan Awais Sohrab of Ontario, Canada, winner of MoneyGram&#8217;s (NASDAQ: MGI) \u201cUltimate Cricket Fan\u201d blogger contest, arrived in the United Kingdom today for his all-expense-paid trip to the International Cricket Council\u2019s (ICC) Champions Trophy semi-finals and finals. The matches are being held June 19-23.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m so thankful for the opportunity to be here for the Champions Trophy tournament, but also to visit the United Kingdom and witness this country\u2019s rich cricket history,\u201d said Sohrab, a student pursuing a criminal justice degree at Humber College in Toronto. \u201cI\u2019m incredibly excited to serve as MoneyGram\u2019s cricket ambassador and connect with the other fans who follow this amazing sport.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/markets\/news\/MoneyGram+Ultimate+Cricket+Arrives+Champions+Trophy\/8540022\/story.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket fan Awais Sohrab of Ontario, Canada, winner of MoneyGram&#8217;s (NASDAQ: MGI) \u201cUltimate Cricket Fan\u201d blogger contest, arrived in the United Kingdom today for his all-expense-paid trip to the International Cricket Council\u2019s (ICC) Champions Trophy semi-finals and finals. The matches are being held June 19-23. \u201cI\u2019m so thankful for the opportunity to be here for [&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\/4457"}],"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=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}