{"id":5017,"date":"2013-08-04T07:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T10:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2013-08-04T07:16:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T10:46:02","slug":"first-ever-northern-ontario-tournament-the-nugget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5017","title":{"rendered":"First ever northern Ontario tournament (The Nugget)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first cricket tournament held in Northern Ontario is taking over Amelia Park this weekend.\u00a0Three out-of-town teams from Markham-Toronto, Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie are joining the host North Bay Multicultural Cricket Club for the two-day event, which included an opening ceremony Saturday morning with remarks from Mayor Al McDonald and North Bay and District Multicultural Centre executive director Don Curry.\u00a0The Thunder Bay Warriors opened the tournament Saturday morning and afternoon with the first game of the weekend against a team from the Markham Toronto Cricket League.\u00a0It was the Warriors&#8217; first-ever game \u2014 not to mention the team&#8217;s first-ever win, although a \u201ccontroversial one\u201d at that, said Thunder Bay player Ankur Shahr \u2014 after forming just a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nugget.ca\/2013\/08\/03\/a-first-for-local-cricket\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first cricket tournament held in Northern Ontario is taking over Amelia Park this weekend.\u00a0Three out-of-town teams from Markham-Toronto, Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie are joining the host North Bay Multicultural Cricket Club for the two-day event, which included an opening ceremony Saturday morning with remarks from Mayor Al McDonald and North Bay and [&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\/5017"}],"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=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5020,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}