{"id":9144,"date":"2012-09-14T06:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2012-09-14T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T00:26:30","slug":"cricket-for-smiles-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/cricket-for-smiles-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket For Smiles &#8211; Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cricket-for-smiles-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5754\" title=\"cricket-for-smiles-06\" src=\"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cricket-for-smiles-06-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cricket-for-smiles-06-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cricket-for-smiles-06.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A couple of years ago many Bashers stepped up to the plate and contributed to the Cricket For Smiles programme in Japan which was set up after the Tsunami. That programme has gone on to win\u00c2\u00a0the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award \u00c2\u00a0and a couple of days ago Cricket Japan&#8217;s CEO, Alex Miyaji, \u00c2\u00a0was also the subject of a special motion in the Scottish Parliament (Alex is half Scottish) recognising his efforts. Cricket is hardly a big sport in Japan so what these guys have achieved both on the pitch and off the pitch in terms of their wider contribution to the local communities is simply outstanding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp\/en\/webmagazine\/2012\/sep\/cricket.html\">http:\/\/www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp\/en\/webmagazine\/2012\/sep\/cricket.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago many Bashers stepped up to the plate and contributed to the Cricket For Smiles programme in Japan which was set up after the Tsunami. That programme has gone on to win\u00c2\u00a0the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award \u00c2\u00a0and a couple of days ago Cricket Japan&#8217;s CEO, Alex Miyaji, \u00c2\u00a0was also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[302,246],"class_list":["post-9144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club","category-cricket","tag-cricket-for-smiles","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9146,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}