{"id":5951,"date":"2014-04-22T10:04:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2014-04-22T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:35:08","slug":"scarborough-indoor-training-facility-aims-to-become-%e2%80%98heart%e2%80%99-of-canadian-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5951","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough indoor training facility aims to become \u2018heart\u2019 of Canadian cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Raza reports for the Scarborough Mirror<br \/>\nCanada\u2019s largest indoor cricket facility is set to offer new coaching and training this summer.<br \/>\nSorkkam Cricket in Scarborough boasts a \u201cstate of the art\u201d facility that offers cricket training and coaching all year round. Under the new ownership of Anil Perera, the facility aims to become the heart of cricket in Canada.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was founded three years ago,\u201d Perera said, adding that the Canadian National Cricket team uses the site to practice.<br \/>\nWith new management since the beginning of this month, Perera hopes that the upcoming summer months will increase the number of participants in the game. The facility includes a snack bar, a pizza bar and an upcoming cricket store.<br \/>\nTo further promote Sorkkam, Perera is inviting former Sri Lankan cricketer Arjuna Ranatunga to start an academy at the facility this summer.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidetoronto.com\/news-story\/4475995-scarborough-indoor-training-facility-aims-to-become-heart-of-canadian-cricket\/\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Raza reports for the Scarborough Mirror Canada\u2019s largest indoor cricket facility is set to offer new coaching and training this summer. Sorkkam Cricket in Scarborough boasts a \u201cstate of the art\u201d facility that offers cricket training and coaching all year round. Under the new ownership of Anil Perera, the facility aims to become the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951"}],"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=5951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}