{"id":100,"date":"2011-05-31T07:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T11:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-05-31T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T11:34:08","slug":"barbados-tourism-authority-sponsor-hampshire-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-tourism-authority-sponsor-hampshire-t20\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados sponsor Hampshire in T20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cricket in Barbados!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.barbados.org\/activities\/kensington_crowd.jpg\" alt=\"Cricket in Barbados!\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enjoying cricket in Barbados!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Barbados Tourism Authority will sponsor the English county cricket team <strong>Hampshire<\/strong> as\u00a0Official Twenty20 Shirt Sponsor and Travel Partner.<\/p>\n<p>Hampshire have also agreed to\u00a0a 3 year deal to hold their pre-season training tour in Barbados. The excellent cricket facilities and fine weather in Barbados make it the ideal location for such training.<\/p>\n<p>The Hampshire Royals were in Barbados earlier this year for the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament. Having dominated much of the tournament, they lost out in the final at <a title=\"Kensington Oval, Barbados\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barbados.org\/kensington_oval.htm?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=Post\">Kensington Oval<\/a> to Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to the\u00a0Hampshire team!<\/p>\n<p>Barbados has a rich cricketing history. In fact Kensington Oval was the first ground in the West Indies to host an English touring team, back in 1895.<\/p>\n<p>All cricket fans should make a point of visiting Kensington Oval while on a Barbados vacation. Tours are held daily at the ground and local, regional and international matches are held throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>If you are visiting Barbados by cruise ship, you&#8217;re in luck because Kensington Oval is just a few minutes walk from the Bridgetown Port.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Legends of Barbados Cricket Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barbados.org\/legends-barbados-cricket-museum.htm?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=Post\">Legends of Barbados Cricket Museum<\/a> is also well worth a visit and is just a minute&#8217;s walk from Kensington.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Barbados Tourism Authority will sponsor the English county cricket team Hampshire as\u00a0Official Twenty20 Shirt Sponsor and Travel Partner. Hampshire have also agreed to\u00a0a 3 year deal to hold their pre-season training tour in Barbados. The excellent cricket facilities and fine weather in Barbados make it the ideal location for such training. The Hampshire Royals were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5],"tags":[13,33,34,20],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}