{"id":9484,"date":"2018-11-13T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=9484"},"modified":"2019-02-20T14:51:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:51:55","slug":"u19-%e3%83%af%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%83%89%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%e4%ba%88%e9%81%b8%e5%a4%a7%e4%bc%9a%e3%81%ae%e9%96%8b%e5%82%ac%e5%9b%bd%e3%81%8c%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%81%ab%e6%b1%ba%e5%ae%9a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/u19-%e3%83%af%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%83%89%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%e4%ba%88%e9%81%b8%e5%a4%a7%e4%bc%9a%e3%81%ae%e9%96%8b%e5%82%ac%e5%9b%bd%e3%81%8c%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%81%ab%e6%b1%ba%e5%ae%9a\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to Host Under 19 World Cup Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9485 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Academy-XI-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Academy-XI-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Academy-XI-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Academy-XI-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Japan has been chosen to host the Under 19 World Cup Qualifier which will take place in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The competition, which will feature Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Vanuatu, along with the hosts, will run from 2<sup>nd<\/sup> \u2013 9<sup>th<\/sup> June.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the competition will qualify directly for the Under 19 World Cup, a 16-team tournament which is to be held in South Africa in January and February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Japan last entered a team at Under 19 level in 2011 and coach Dhugal Bedingfield is aware of the challenge ahead:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity for our players to show the depth we have coming through our player pathway. We do not play any 50-over cricket in Japan, so it is a challenge every time we play this format, but we will make sure the boys are ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final squad of 14 will be named at the end of April and the fixtures will be announced in the new year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has been chosen to host the Under 19 World Cup Qualifier which will take place in June 2019. The competition, which will feature Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484","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=9484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9970,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions\/9970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}