{"id":6867,"date":"2014-12-16T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2014-12-16T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T11:39:00","slug":"canadas-warm-up-games-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6867","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s warm-up games in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada will play four games against the Zimbabwe A team in Harare in early January 2015 before moving on to Windhoek, Namibia for the ICC World Cricket League Division Two.  The games with Zimbabwe A will take place on January 6.8, 10 and 12.  The pre-tournament preparations will include net practices and practices out in the middle. The team will travel to Namibia on January 13 and continue pre-tournament preparations for a tournament which is critical for the continued development of the game in Canada.<br \/>\n <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Preparations for those based in the Greater Toronto have included indoor nets at Sorkkam&#8217;s facilities in Scarborough as well as Sunday sessions geared towards mental preparations with a range of experts. The players have been shaping up well in the practices, according to National Coach Mukesh Narula, and have become &#8220;a hungry group&#8221; keen to do well in a Canadian international shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Mukesh Narula is in on-going contact with Canadian squad members and developing prospects around the country. He is pleased with the recent performance of Canadian players for different teams in a tournament in Florida, as well as the opportunity for five leading young players to participate in a camp in the West Indies that could result in them gaining places with teams in the Caribbean Premier League next year. (EN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada will play four games against the Zimbabwe A team in Harare in early January 2015 before moving on to Windhoek, Namibia for the ICC World Cricket League Division Two. The games with Zimbabwe A will take place on January 6.8, 10 and 12. The pre-tournament preparations will include net practices and practices out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867"}],"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=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}