{"id":12597,"date":"2019-10-28T16:09:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T07:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2020-01-08T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T10:20:36","slug":"u19-%e3%82%af%e3%83%aa%e3%82%b1%e3%83%83%e3%83%88%e3%83%af%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%83%89%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%e3%80%81%e6%ad%a3%e5%bc%8f%e6%97%a5%e7%a8%8b%e7%99%ba%e8%a1%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/u19-%e3%82%af%e3%83%aa%e3%82%b1%e3%83%83%e3%83%88%e3%83%af%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%83%89%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%e3%80%81%e6%ad%a3%e5%bc%8f%e6%97%a5%e7%a8%8b%e7%99%ba%e8%a1%a8\/","title":{"rendered":"Under 19 Cricket World Cup Matches Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) have announced the fixtures for the Under 19 Cricket World Cup to be held in South Africa in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Japan have been drawn in Group A alongside defending Champions India, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Japan will also play warm up matches against Scotland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before playing our first official match against New Zealand on Saturday 18<sup>th<\/sup> January.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time Japan have played in a Cricket World Cup of any kind and the team will also travel to Brisbane, Australia for a host of warm up matches prior to leaving for South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of Japan Cricket Naoki Miyaji said: \u201cThis is a fantastic opportunity for Japan cricket to gain exposure on a global scale and show that the sport is growing here and that there is genuine talent. I wish our players the best of luck against what is sure to be some excellent opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tournament runs from Friday 17th January and concludes with the Final on Sunday 9<sup>th<\/sup> February.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for Japan is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>13th January: Warm Up\u00a0 match vs Scotland<\/li>\n<li>15th January: Warm Up match vs UAD<\/li>\n<li>18th January: Group Stage match vs New Zealand<\/li>\n<li>21st January: Group Stage match vs India<\/li>\n<li>25th January: Group Stage match vs Sri Lanka<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finals and play off matches will follow the groups stages.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) have announced the fixtures for the Under 19 Cricket World Cup to be held in South Africa in 2020. Japan have been drawn in Group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles","category-mens-national-team-u19","region-east-kanto-rca","region-hokkaido-rca","region-hokushinetsu-rca","region-kyushu-rca","region-north-kanto-rca","region-south-kanto-rca","region-tohoku-rca","region-tokai-rca","region-west-kanto-rca","region-kansai-rca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12841,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions\/12841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}