{"id":5924,"date":"2014-04-11T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2014-04-11T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:51:53","slug":"national-post-covers-mayors-cricket-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5924","title":{"rendered":"National Post covers Mayor&#8217;s cricket event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Post:-<br \/>\nCricket has come a long way in Mahendra Ram\u2019s 31 years in Toronto. He arrived from Guyana in 1983 at age 13 and still remembers the one game he played as a student, for Parkdale Collegiate Institute. His team faced a squad from Upper Canada College, the only other school with a team. \u201cWe show up and we look like this,\u201d he says, motioning to his modest attire. \u201cAnd they\u2019re all dressed in white, complete professionals. We lost the moment we walked in.\u201d Now, about 50 boys\u2019 teams play at city schools, said Mr. Ram, a chemistry teacher at York Memorial Collegiate Institute where he coaches both girls and boys in cricket.<br \/>\nOn Thursday, he stood in a Cabbagetown community centre teeming with young cricket enthusiasts to announce a tournament in May at Eglinton Flats Park, G. Ross Lord Park and Sunnybrook Park. The Mayor\u2019s School Cricket \u2013 CIBC Trophy 2014 is also sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Thursday,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2014\/04\/10\/rob-ford-cricket\/\">Full story<\/a><br \/>\nToronto Sun Coverage:- &#8220;Ford dismissed the idea he\u2019s all football all the time and admitted he has played cricket.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2014\/04\/10\/rob-ford-kicks-off-annual-mayors-cricket-tournament\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Post:- Cricket has come a long way in Mahendra Ram\u2019s 31 years in Toronto. He arrived from Guyana in 1983 at age 13 and still remembers the one game he played as a student, for Parkdale Collegiate Institute. His team faced a squad from Upper Canada College, the only other school with a team. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924"}],"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=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}