{"id":55168,"date":"2015-07-10T19:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55168"},"modified":"2015-07-11T00:05:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:05:02","slug":"canada-loses-opener-to-kenya-at-icc-world-twenty20-qualifier-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/10\/canada-loses-opener-to-kenya-at-icc-world-twenty20-qualifier-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada loses opener to Kenya at ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55169\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gunasekera-ruvindu-100116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55169\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gunasekera-ruvindu-100116.jpg\" alt=\"Ruvindu Gunasekera  (Photo courtesy of News of the South)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gunasekera-ruvindu-100116.jpg 584w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gunasekera-ruvindu-100116-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruvindu Gunasekera (Photo courtesy of News of the South)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EDINBURGH \u2013 Irfan Karim hit 74 not out to lead Kenya to a seven-wicket win over Canada in the opening match for both teams Friday at the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Opener Ruvindu Gunasekera led the way with 51 as Canada finished at 143 for five after its 20 overs. Gunasekera slammed four sixes and three fours in his 38-ball inning.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Rizwan Cheema added 35.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya reached that total in 18.3 innings, rallying to finish at 146 for three after losing its first three wickets for just 52 runs.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-team tournament runs through Juy 26 in Scotland and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The top six sides will join the ICC\u2019s 10 full members for the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016, which runs March 11 to April 3.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is in Group B with Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Oman, Scotland and Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDINBURGH \u2013 Irfan Karim hit 74 not out to lead Kenya to a seven-wicket win over Canada in the opening &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":55169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-55168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}