{"id":982,"date":"2010-12-14T09:59:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2010-12-14T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:29:22","slug":"canadian-cricket-a-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Canadian cricket- a new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A History of Canadian Cricket: An Immigrant&#8217;s Game?  By Patrick Adams has just been published and is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\">www.lulu.com<\/a><br \/>\nYou probably know that Canada has scored some notable firsts in the history of cricket. The fact that the first ever cricket international was played between Canada and the United States in 1844 is likely to be old news to you. But did you know that it was all started by a hoax four years earlier? Or that allegations of match-fixing were made in cricket\u2019s first international match?<br \/>\nFor the first time the story of Canada\u2019s cricket history is told in 200 pages that details the cricket played by the pioneers of the early nineteenth century to participation in the World Cups of 1979, 2003 and 2007. A must read for anyone who really wants to get behind their team for the 2011 World Cup in February!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A History of Canadian Cricket: An Immigrant&#8217;s Game? By Patrick Adams has just been published and is available from www.lulu.com You probably know that Canada has scored some notable firsts in the history of cricket. The fact that the first ever cricket international was played between Canada and the United States in 1844 is likely [&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\/982"}],"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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}