{"id":5884,"date":"2014-03-31T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2014-03-31T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:32:39","slug":"jimmy-siews-impact-on-cricket-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5884","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Siew&#8217;s impact on cricket in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Fanfair writes for Share:-<br \/>\nThe game of cricket consumed much of Jimmy Siew\u2019s life. His enormous contributions to the sport, particularly as an administrator, were celebrated last weekend as family, friends and members of Canada\u2019s cricket community gathered in Ottawa to pay their final respects to Siew who died two weeks ago at the age of 85&#8230;.<br \/>\nLong-time Cricket Canada secretary Calvin Clarke met Siew in 1978 during Canada\u2019s preparation for the 1979 World Cup in England.   \u201cWhile he relished his various roles as an administrator, I thought that umpiring was his passion,\u201d said Clarke who is Cricket Canada\u2019s longest serving official. \u201cHe was always keen to sit and talk about officiating and his understanding of the laws of the sport was impeccable\u2026Jimmy was a mentor and a friend who had a close relationship with late West Indies player and selector, Joey Carew. You always knew you were in for a fun time when you were in their company and Jimmy was always prepared to take us out of Queen\u2019s Park Oval, while we were watching a match, to grab a roti at the nearby Patraj Roti Shop.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sharenews.com\/jimmy-siew-made-a-significant-impact-on-cricket-in-canada\/\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Fanfair writes for Share:- The game of cricket consumed much of Jimmy Siew\u2019s life. His enormous contributions to the sport, particularly as an administrator, were celebrated last weekend as family, friends and members of Canada\u2019s cricket community gathered in Ottawa to pay their final respects to Siew who died two weeks ago at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884"}],"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=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5885,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions\/5885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}