{"id":7305,"date":"2015-03-16T06:48:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T10:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2015-03-16T06:48:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T10:18:19","slug":"hamza-tariq-featured-in-sait-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7305","title":{"rendered":"Hamza Tariq featured in SAIT news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing on a national team is a great accomplishment in any sport\u2014but when you\u2019re in Canada the cricket team doesn\u2019t get much respect. Hamza Tariq was born in Karachi, Pakistan, but it wasn\u2019t until he moved to Canada that his love for cricket grew. \u201cCricket is the fastest growing sport in North America,\u201d said Tariq.<br \/>\nTariq moved with his family to Toronto at the age of 12, and started to play cricket once he moved to Calgary at 15. He started playing on the U-15 team, progressing successively through U-19, provincial, and finally to the national team where he has remained for the last five years.<br \/>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s just in my blood.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theweal.com\/2015\/03\/16\/national-cricket-player-leads-the-charge-for-a-sait-team\/\">Full story in &#8220;The Weal&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing on a national team is a great accomplishment in any sport\u2014but when you\u2019re in Canada the cricket team doesn\u2019t get much respect. Hamza Tariq was born in Karachi, Pakistan, but it wasn\u2019t until he moved to Canada that his love for cricket grew. \u201cCricket is the fastest growing sport in North America,\u201d said Tariq. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305"}],"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=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7306,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/7306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}