{"id":1151,"date":"2016-04-26T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2016-04-26T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:09:30","slug":"barbados-to-host-golden-oldies-world-cricket-festival-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-to-host-golden-oldies-world-cricket-festival-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados To Host Golden Oldies World Cricket Festival in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados will host the 2017 Golden Oldies World Cricket Festival, an international tournament for semi-professional and retired players.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1154\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-Golden-Oldies-World-Cricket-Festival.jpg\" alt=\"2017-Golden-Oldies-World-Cricket-Festival\" width=\"750\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-Golden-Oldies-World-Cricket-Festival.jpg 750w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-Golden-Oldies-World-Cricket-Festival-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The island has a long and proud cricketing history. \u00a0Barbados is home to the historic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbados.org\/kensington_oval.htm\">Kensington Oval<\/a>,\u00a0the first West Indian ground to host an English touring team (way back in 1895). And of course Barbados has produced some of the finest cricketers including Sir Garfield Sobers, the 3Ws, Desmond Haynes and Wes Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Kensington Oval hosted the final of the 2007 World Cup and the 2010\u00a0World\u00a0T20 final.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2017 the\u00a017th Golden Oldies World Cricket festival comes to our shores, with over 100 teams visiting to enjoy friendly competition, sunny weather, excellent beaches, nightlife and adventure!<\/p>\n<div class=\"iframe-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8c9zpP_Dlr8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados will host the 2017 Golden Oldies World Cricket Festival, an international tournament for semi-professional and retired players. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,32,8],"tags":[13,33],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151"}],"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=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}