{"id":5867,"date":"2014-03-18T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T11:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2014-03-18T07:41:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T11:11:06","slug":"cricket-catching-on-in-sault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"Cricket catching on in Sault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Verdone writes in the Sault Star:-<br \/>\nCricket anyone? Locals responded to that call from Duane Moleni, who organized a demonstration of cricket during the seventh annual Passport to Unity Festival that was held in Sault Ste. Marie in the spring of 2013. Moleni grew up playing the bat-and-ball game in New Zealand, so he was eager to continue playing after arriving in the Sault eight years ago.<br \/>\n\u201cI wanted to be able to play something that gives me that taste of home,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nSo much interest was generated during the Unity demonstration that a group was formed.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Sault Ste. Marie Cricket Club is borne out of this exhibition last year,\u201d Moleni said.<br \/>\nThe new club has a core group of between 20 and 30 men who have been strapping on pads and swinging bats on an outdoor field in the city, and indoor at Algoma University&#8217;s George Leach Centre and the Northern Community Centre.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saultstar.com\/2014\/03\/17\/cricket-catching-on-in-sault\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Verdone writes in the Sault Star:- Cricket anyone? Locals responded to that call from Duane Moleni, who organized a demonstration of cricket during the seventh annual Passport to Unity Festival that was held in Sault Ste. Marie in the spring of 2013. Moleni grew up playing the bat-and-ball game in New Zealand, so he [&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\/5867"}],"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=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}