{"id":6894,"date":"2015-01-05T06:38:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2015-01-05T06:38:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T10:08:13","slug":"cricket-canada-hopes-to-attract-more-females-to-the-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6894","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Canada hopes to attract more females to the pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryam Shah writes for the Toronto Sun:-<br \/>\nThe popularity of cricket may be growing in Canada but the game has a long way to go when it comes to competing for the spotlight with other sports. And its supporters at Cricket Canada are doing their best to attract more female players to the pitch. Cricket Canada hopes to boost female participation in the sport by holding all-female \u201ccric-a-thons\u201d or cricket training camps&#8230;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s Nizar Moosa\u2019s job to organize female-only cricket camps at Sunnybrook Park in the summer months and in high school gymnasiums in the winter. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t cost them anything, there\u2019s no cost for any equipment, everything is provided,\u201d Moosa said of the girls who attend the cricket camps. \u201cThey get coaching from the community coach as well as the girls who are playing senior cricket.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2015\/01\/04\/cricket-canada-hopes-to-attract-more-females-to-the-pitch\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryam Shah writes for the Toronto Sun:- The popularity of cricket may be growing in Canada but the game has a long way to go when it comes to competing for the spotlight with other sports. And its supporters at Cricket Canada are doing their best to attract more female players to the pitch. Cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894"}],"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=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}