{"id":7893,"date":"2015-07-17T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T17:34:29","slug":"calgary-prepares-for-t20-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7893","title":{"rendered":"Calgary prepares for T20 playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A playoff preview of Calgary&#8217;s T20 show piece competition.\u00a0Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Vikramjit.Singh.Gondara?fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\">Vee Gondara<\/a> for posting in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/Calgary.Cricket\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary &amp; District Cricket League<\/a> Facebook group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time once again for Calgary cricket\u2019s showpiece occasion, where fans from across the city descend to watch a day of fun, drama and big hits.<br \/>\nUnited, Crown CC, St. John&#8217;s &amp; Kings will battle it out for the crown this season.<\/p>\n<p>Final has been won by United for the past 3 years so who will prevail in 2015?<br \/>\nFavorites United are the team to beat as they seek to defend the title won in West Winds 12 months ago under the new captain Saleem Rizwan with the support of one of the best cricketing brain in Alberta Manzoor Chaudhary backed up by talented youngsters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi Final One \u2013 Crown v Kings<\/strong><br \/>\nRejuvenated Crown under the leadership of Baqir and inclusion of Tahir Mughal will take on the Unpredictable Kings.\u00a0Both teams with some hard hitters will try to take on the early advantage if possible as both bat deep down the order.<br \/>\nKey Man for Crown will be their seasoned Veteran All rounder Tahir Mughal.\u00a0Kings will rely on their middle order more or less but will need their erratic fielding to come good in order to see them through to the final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi Final Two \u2013 United v St. John&#8217;s<\/strong><br \/>\nUnited is the standout T20 side at finals day without a doubt. United have clinched the trophy thrice and will be looking for another victory.<br \/>\nKey Man will be their experienced player Manzoor Chaudhary who is known to pull his weight for big games under pressure.<br \/>\nSt. John&#8217;s with their strong batting line up with Sudeepta Aurka on top has to lead from the front. But they will need their bowling unit, to fire in order to see them through to the final.<br \/>\nBest of Luck to all the teams and may the Best team take the Title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A playoff preview of Calgary&#8217;s T20 show piece competition.\u00a0Thanks to Vee Gondara for posting in the Calgary &amp; District Cricket League Facebook group. &#8212; It\u2019s time once again for Calgary cricket\u2019s showpiece occasion, where fans from across the city descend to watch a day of fun, drama and big hits. United, Crown CC, St. John&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7894,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions\/7894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}