{"id":6223,"date":"2014-07-08T07:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T10:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2014-07-08T07:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T10:55:24","slug":"brothers-excel-on-cricket-pitch-peace-arch-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6223","title":{"rendered":"Brothers excel on cricket pitch (Peace Arch News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two rising South Surrey cricketers were part of the team representing B.C. in U17 Canada Cup play last week in Toronto. The India-born Bhagat brothers \u2013 Dhruv, 16, and Kartik, 14 \u2013 moved to Ocean Park from New Delhi, with dad Ashish and mom Bhavna, just over a year ago. But even in that short period of time, the talented Elgin Park Secondary students have made their mark with the West Vancouver Cricket Club, Dhruv even receiving  the club trophy for most improved player last year. Travelling to the North Shore every week for practices may seem intense, but not when one considers that when the cricket-oriented family emigrated to Canada, proximity to the West Vancouver Club \u2013 one of the most active in Western Canada \u2013 was a major factor in settling on the West Coast. \u201cEvery time we searched the Internet for cricket in Canada, Vancouver would come up,\u201d said Dhruv, an all-rounder who combines skills at bat with off-spin bowling. He admits he\u2019s been obsessed with the game since he was four. \u201cAs soon as I started walking I was playing cricket,\u201d he says. \u201cIn India, it\u2019s like ice hockey is here \u2013 everybody knows how to play it. All the kids are playing and practising six hours a day. \u201cIt\u2019s in our blood, basically. You develop an interest in it early. It connects with us, and it\u2019s also a good team sport that involves a lot of kids \u2013 you need 22 people to play it properly.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacearchnews.com\/sports\/266073931.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two rising South Surrey cricketers were part of the team representing B.C. in U17 Canada Cup play last week in Toronto. The India-born Bhagat brothers \u2013 Dhruv, 16, and Kartik, 14 \u2013 moved to Ocean Park from New Delhi, with dad Ashish and mom Bhavna, just over a year ago. But even in that short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223"}],"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=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6224,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}