{"id":5384,"date":"2017-05-15T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T08:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:41:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T08:41:22","slug":"%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%83%97%e3%83%ac%e3%83%9f%e3%82%a2%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b0-2017-%e9%96%8b%e5%b9%95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%83%97%e3%83%ac%e3%83%9f%e3%82%a2%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b0-2017-%e9%96%8b%e5%b9%95\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Premier League T20 Set to Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four Japan Premier League teams are busy in preparations for the start of the 2017 season on May 28th. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similar to last year, teams will play each other twice in a round robin format. This year a final will be played in October between the two top teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will be plenty of new players in action this year for all four teams, joining some more familiar faces in squads selected from the best T20 players in the four Kanto regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The South Kanto Super Kings and the North Kanto Lions boast plenty of big names and will go in to the league as favorites but the West Kanto Hurricanes and East Kanto Sunrisers are also expected to improve after signing some new players in the off season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spectators are encouraged to come and watch. Entry will be free to all events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, some matches will be live streamed and will be viewable through the Abema Fresh website and app.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Full schedule<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h6><strong>Match Day 1 &#8211; Sun May 28th<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanmu, 10:00-13:00, 13:30-16:30, East Kanto Sunrisers v South Kanto Super Kings <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sano, 10:30-13:30, 14:00-17:00, North Kanto Lions v West Kanto Hurricanes<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Match Day 2 &#8211; Sun July 23rd<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sano, 10:30-13:30, 14:00-17:00, North Kanto Lions v East Kanto Sunrisers <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YCAC, 10:00-13:00, 13:30-16:30, South Kanto Super Kings v West Kanto Hurricanes<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Match Day 3 &#8211; Sat September 23rd<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Akishima, 9:30-12:30, 13:00-16:00, West Kanto Hurricanes v East Kanto Sunrisers <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sano, 10:30-13:30, 14:00-17:00, North Kanto Lions v South Kanto Super Kings<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Final &#8211; Sun October 22nd<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1st v 2nd (TBC)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four Japan Premier League teams are busy in preparations for the start of the 2017 season on May 28th. Similar to last year, teams will play each other twice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-news-and-articles","region-east-kanto-rca","region-north-kanto-rca","region-south-kanto-rca","region-west-kanto-rca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5532,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}