{"id":9605,"date":"2016-08-24T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2016-08-24T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:16:12","slug":"cricket-in-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9605","title":{"rendered":"Cricket in Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9606\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210873.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9606\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9606\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210873-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Critch batting\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210873-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210873-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210873-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210873.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Critch batting<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210767.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9607\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210767-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210767-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210767-768x1062.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210767-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210767-300x415.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210767.jpg 1302w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>Cricket Newfoundland and Labrador recently partnered with Provincial Historic Sites to present a demonstration of cricket in the historic community of Trinity, about 250 kilometres from St. John&#8217;s. This is the third year for cricket in Trinity, and was again a success. Cricket was played in Trinity around the end of the 19th century, with the local team hosting teams from St. John&#8217;s, and the community museum has photos of that team, plus two old cricket bats.<br \/>\nThe area provided was small, and for safety reasons, tennis balls ands soft cricket balls were used to put on a demonstration after which sufficient spectators were recruited to put on an 8\/ side match, won by &#8220;team Trinity&#8221;. Comedian Mark Critch was an enthusiastic spectator, and was persuaded to demonstrate his own cricket skills as seen on screen in &#8220;The Grand Seduction&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/nlcricket\/?p=1644\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket NL photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket Newfoundland and Labrador recently partnered with Provincial Historic Sites to present a demonstration of cricket in the historic community of Trinity, about 250 kilometres from St. John&#8217;s. This is the third year for cricket in Trinity, and was again a success. Cricket was played in Trinity around the end of the 19th century, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605"}],"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=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9608,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions\/9608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}