{"id":8767,"date":"2016-02-11T17:21:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8767"},"modified":"2016-02-11T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:51:33","slug":"dutta-kumar-and-hamza-tariq-drafted-by-cpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8767","title":{"rendered":"Dutta, Kumar and Hamza Tariq drafted by CPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikhil Dutta, Nitish Kumar and Hamza Tariq have been selected by teams competing in the Carribean Premier League. Peter Della Penna reports for CricInfo:-<br \/>\nJust minutes after exiting his morning mid-term in Calgary, Tariq opened up his laptop and saw his name and profile picture on the CPL draft live stream being dragged with a mouse into the Knight Riders pool. The Americas team-mates may have been separated by 1900 miles, but the moment was just as overwhelming for Tariq in Alberta as it was for Khan in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I can tell you is my eyes are red at the moment,&#8221; Tariq said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a pretty big thing for me and I&#8217;ve been working hard towards getting something like this for a while and finally I&#8217;ve got it. It&#8217;s just something very special. I had a little bit of a preference of playing for the Knight Riders and getting picked by them is something very special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very blessed. The prayers from my friends, family and well-wishers, it&#8217;s all because of them. I didn&#8217;t think that I would get picked, especially by the Knight Riders, but getting picked by my favorite team is something that I wasn&#8217;t expecting and something very very special to me.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/caribbean-premier-league-2016\/content\/story\/971669.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikhil Dutta, Nitish Kumar and Hamza Tariq have been selected by teams competing in the Carribean Premier League. Peter Della Penna reports for CricInfo:- Just minutes after exiting his morning mid-term in Calgary, Tariq opened up his laptop and saw his name and profile picture on the CPL draft live stream being dragged with a [&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\/8767"}],"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=8767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8768,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions\/8768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}