{"id":5996,"date":"2014-05-10T08:19:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2014-05-10T08:19:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T11:49:19","slug":"cricket-becomes-the-new-field-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5996","title":{"rendered":"Cricket becomes the new field of dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allie Coulman writes for the Globe and Mail<br \/>\nYork Memorial Collegiate Institute has had a boys\u2019 cricket team for longer than the 10 years coach Mahendra Ram has been there. But girls\u2019 cricket was officially recognized only two years ago \u2013 and the team is now a force to be reckoned with. The girls\u2019 team is undefeated except for an early game against neighbouring school George Harvey Collegiate Institute. \u201cWe never let that happen again,\u201d team captain Saabiqa Chowdhury says with a competitive smirk.<br \/>\n&#8230;.many of the players on the York Memorial girls\u2019 cricket team are from non-traditional cricket-playing backgrounds and just tried out for the fun of the game. \u201cI have kids from all over the world on my team,\u201d Mr. Ram, the girls\u2019 coach, says. \u201cMore people are aware of it, not just within the traditional communities that play cricket. \u2026 They\u2019re willing to try a new sport because they\u2019re athletes and they are interested in learning new things.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/toronto\/cricket-becomes-the-new-field-of-dreams\/article18586310\/\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allie Coulman writes for the Globe and Mail York Memorial Collegiate Institute has had a boys\u2019 cricket team for longer than the 10 years coach Mahendra Ram has been there. But girls\u2019 cricket was officially recognized only two years ago \u2013 and the team is now a force to be reckoned with. The girls\u2019 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\/5996"}],"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=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}