{"id":8737,"date":"2016-02-03T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2016-02-03T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T10:08:10","slug":"ryersons-cricket-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8737","title":{"rendered":"Ryerson&#8217;s cricket star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having played on the Ryerson cricket team for the past two seasons, Shan Antharajah has taken his game to the next level, representing Canada on the world stage.<br \/>\nTaking the semester off, the second year Information Technology Management major is competing in the Under 19 World Cup of Cricket in Bangladesh.<br \/>\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t get any better than this. I\u2019m playing against the best competition for my age in the world,\u201d says Shan. \u201cThis is definitely the biggest moment of my career so far.\u201d<br \/>\nStarting out at the age of 12, Shan\u2019s progression in the competitive world of cricket was rapid; playing for team Canada by the time he was 14.<br \/>\n\u201cThey had tryouts all over Canada, and picked the best 15 guys from each province. The provinces played eachother, and then they picked the best 15 guys to be on team Canada, out of maybe 60 or 75 guys,\u201d says Shan.<br \/>\nFive years later, he\u2019s playing in his first World Cup.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theeyeopener.com\/2016\/02\/meet-ryersons-cricket-star\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story by Evan Manning for the Eyeopener<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having played on the Ryerson cricket team for the past two seasons, Shan Antharajah has taken his game to the next level, representing Canada on the world stage. Taking the semester off, the second year Information Technology Management major is competing in the Under 19 World Cup of Cricket in Bangladesh. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t get any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737"}],"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=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8738,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions\/8738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}