{"id":181052,"date":"2022-01-05T01:39:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=181052"},"modified":"2022-01-05T01:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:09:36","slug":"mikong-winter-t20-cricket-tourney-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/05\/mikong-winter-t20-cricket-tourney-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikong winter T20 cricket tourney begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RUKSIN, 4 Jan:<\/strong> DJ Cricket Club of Mikong won the opening match of the 8th Winter T20 Cricket Tournament, beating Pasighat Captain-XI by eight wickets at the Mikong upper primary school (UPS) playground here in East Siang district on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pasighat team batted first and set a target of 69 runs in the allotted 20 overs, losing all wickets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mikong team reached the target in six overs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty-four teams from Arunachal and Assam are participating in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final is scheduled to be played on 17 January, according to the organizers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The champion team and the runners-up teams will be awarded cash prizes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attending the opening ceremony, public leader Jacob Paron urged the youths to give equal importance to sports and academics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that the younger generation is not interested in sports activities, Paron urged the school teachers, leaders and parents to &#8220;encourage them in games and sports and help them in building careers out of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Puna Hinda Construction Company&#8217;s project manager Milo Richo advised the players to make good use of the tournament to show their talents as well as promote the sports in the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mikong UPS Headmaster Tajing Mesar also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent RUKSIN, 4 Jan: DJ Cricket Club of Mikong won the opening match of the 8th Winter T20 Cricket Tournament, beating Pasighat Captain-XI by eight wickets at the Mikong upper primary school (UPS) playground here in East Siang district on Tuesday. The Pasighat team batted first and set a target of 69 runs in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}