{"id":5617,"date":"2014-01-05T10:09:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2014-01-05T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T13:39:02","slug":"faraz-sarwat-on-bagai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5617","title":{"rendered":"Faraz Sarwat on Bagai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faraz Sarwat has written an appreciation of Asish Bagai for CricInfo<br \/>\n&#8220;His retirement puts the spotlight on where Canadian cricket currently stands. When Bagai made his ODI debut in the 2003 World Cup, there was considerable optimism and a sense of achievement around Canadian cricket. Ten years later, despite his best efforts, he leaves behind a team in shambles and Canadian cricket as a whole teetering on the brink of an awful precipice. Like Davison before him, Bagai became the get-out-of-jail card for Cricket Canada. If things were bad, recalling him was supposed to fix it all. Sometimes it worked, mostly it didn&#8217;t, and yet it remained the only option to right the wrongs and cure the ills.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/magazine\/content\/story\/704999.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faraz Sarwat has written an appreciation of Asish Bagai for CricInfo &#8220;His retirement puts the spotlight on where Canadian cricket currently stands. When Bagai made his ODI debut in the 2003 World Cup, there was considerable optimism and a sense of achievement around Canadian cricket. Ten years later, despite his best efforts, he leaves behind [&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\/5617"}],"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=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5618,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions\/5618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}