{"id":6109,"date":"2014-06-05T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T00:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T00:32:30","slug":"us-cricket-pioneer-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6109","title":{"rendered":"US cricket pioneer passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Della Penna&#8217;s CricInfo obituary for Cliff Severn<br \/>\nSevern made his USA debut as a 39-year-old alongside 22-year-old brother Winston in 1965 against Canada at Calgary&#8217;s Riley Park as part of the longest running international rivalry in international cricket now known as the Auty Cup. He batted at six making 26 and 4 in the drawn two-day match. A year later in the return contest at Sir C. Aubrey Smith Field in Los Angeles, Severn opened the batting for USA while making 24 and 8 in USA&#8217;s 54-run win.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/usa\/content\/story\/750517.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Della Penna&#8217;s CricInfo obituary for Cliff Severn Severn made his USA debut as a 39-year-old alongside 22-year-old brother Winston in 1965 against Canada at Calgary&#8217;s Riley Park as part of the longest running international rivalry in international cricket now known as the Auty Cup. He batted at six making 26 and 4 in 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\/6109"}],"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=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6110,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/6110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}