{"id":6116,"date":"2014-06-09T09:12:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T12:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2014-06-09T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:10:23","slug":"the-niagara-cricket-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6116","title":{"rendered":"The Niagara Cricket Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Catharines Standard &#8211;<br \/>\nThrough a series of private donations, the Niagara Cricket Centre at 5114 Thorold Townline Rd., on the border of Thorold and Niagara Falls, became a reality in time for the 2012 season. The land is owned by Navid Qureshi, Tan\u2019s younger brother, who has given the club a 10-year lease at $50 a year.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was a weed mess and he had no plans to do anything with it for the next little while \u2014 10 or 15 years,\u201d Tan Qureshi said. \u201cAll he asked for was for us to make it look nice.\u201d<br \/>\nWhat followed were donations of planning and legal work, construction drawings, grading, berms and seeding, a well, a hydro line, grass-cutting equipment and a portable classroom to serve as a rudimentary clubhouse.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re happy to be the luckiest people in the world because we have all these sponsors and people who did a lot of work,\u201d Qureshi said. \u201cI don\u2019t know where these angels came from.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2013\/09\/22\/field-of-dreams\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Catharines Standard &#8211; Through a series of private donations, the Niagara Cricket Centre at 5114 Thorold Townline Rd., on the border of Thorold and Niagara Falls, became a reality in time for the 2012 season. The land is owned by Navid Qureshi, Tan\u2019s younger brother, who has given the club a 10-year lease [&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\/6116"}],"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=6116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}