{"id":7193,"date":"2015-02-12T07:12:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2015-02-12T07:12:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:42:01","slug":"canadian-national-cricket-team-watching-world-cup-from-sidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7193","title":{"rendered":"Canadian national cricket team watching World Cup from sidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A must read piece from CBC reporter Douglas Gelevan:-<br \/>\n&#8220;Seriously I really feel we aren&#8217;t that bad,&#8221; said national team player Rizwan Cheema.&#8221;If things had been done differently we might be in a different place.&#8221;<br \/>\nCheema was on the Canadian team at the 2011 World Cup and won a game against Kenya.<br \/>\n&#8220;That is the best feeling in your career, nothing is better than that, it was amazing,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nBut since then, he says the program has lacked direction.<br \/>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s a new coach every time a new team every time. The last three tours I think there have been three different coaches&#8230; It&#8217;s very frustrating to see the team has gone down so much,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Former national team player Henry Osinde says the turning point came at a tournament in Dubai in 2013.<br \/>\n&#8220;It was just a whole disaster,&#8221; Osinde he said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/canadian-national-cricket-team-watching-world-cup-from-sidelines-1.2952063\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A must read piece from CBC reporter Douglas Gelevan:- &#8220;Seriously I really feel we aren&#8217;t that bad,&#8221; said national team player Rizwan Cheema.&#8221;If things had been done differently we might be in a different place.&#8221; Cheema was on the Canadian team at the 2011 World Cup and won a game against Kenya. &#8220;That is the [&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\/7193"}],"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=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7194,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}