{"id":774750,"date":"2026-07-02T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774750\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:41:13","slug":"milton-opens-new-cricket-practice-cage-amid-sports-continued-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774750\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton opens new cricket practice cage amid sport&#8217;s continued growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Milton, Ont. has opened a new training facility for its growing cricket community.<\/p>\n<p>Milton Now reports a dedicated cricket batting and pitching cage has opened at Optimist Park, allowing players to practise and train.<\/p>\n<p>The cage features an artificial turf pitch to allow consistent playing conditions. Funding for the project included $137,187 from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the cricket cage, other improvements to the site included a new bench, a covered picnic table and perimeter landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full Milton Now report, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miltonnow.ca\/2026\/06\/22\/1137602\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milton, Ont. has opened a new training facility for its growing cricket community. Milton Now reports a dedicated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-774750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}