{"id":6960,"date":"2015-01-13T15:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:21:49","slug":"wcl-division-2-team-preview-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6960","title":{"rendered":"WCL Division 2 team preview: Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bertus de Jong writes for Cricket Europe:-<br \/>\nFor Canada, a side with a long history in international cricket, World Cricket League division 2 already represents a historical nadir in their cricketing fortunes. Following a dismal showing in the World Cup Qualifier in New Zealand last January, Canada found themselves stripped of the ODI status they had enjoyed since 2006 and dropping down the one-day rankings to 20th &#8211; their lowest point in the pecking order of international cricket since victory over the USA in 1844 established them at the pinnacle of a then admittedly limited and notional table.<br \/>\nAt Windhoek next week Canada&#8217;s first priority will be arresting this decline, though going into a tough competition with a weaker team than contested the WC qualifier, even a top four finish may be a big ask for Mukesh Narula&#8217;s men.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricketeurope4.net\/DATABASE\/ARTICLES2015\/articles\/000025\/002585.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bertus de Jong writes for Cricket Europe:- For Canada, a side with a long history in international cricket, World Cricket League division 2 already represents a historical nadir in their cricketing fortunes. Following a dismal showing in the World Cup Qualifier in New Zealand last January, Canada found themselves stripped of the ODI status they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960"}],"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=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6961,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions\/6961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}