{"id":5172,"date":"2020-12-04T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2020-12-04T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T11:02:06","slug":"west-indies-win-mccs-spirit-of-cricket-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5172","title":{"rendered":"West Indies win MCC\u2019s Spirit of Cricket award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/West-Indies-eye-first-Test-series-win-in-England-since-1988.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi:\u00a0West Indies\u2019 men\u2019s and women\u2019s cricket team\u2019s decision to tour England this year has rewarded Windies Cricket the Spirit of Cricket Award from the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both teams toured England during unprecedented times of COVID-19. Jason Holder-led men&#8217;s side\u00a0arrived in England in June for a three-test series played in a biosecure environment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MCC in conjunction with the BBC, has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/windiescricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WindiesCricket<\/a> has been awarded the 2020 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award.<\/p>\n<p>They were selected for their courage in sending both their Men\u2019s &amp; Women\u2019s teams to tour England in 2020.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpiritOfCricket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SpiritOfCricket<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbctms?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bbctms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marylebone Cricket Club (@MCCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MCCOfficial\/status\/1334580665828913156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was the first time, international cricket resumed after\u00a0the novel coronavirus outbreak stopped cricket activities across the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Windies&#8217; women featured in a T20I series against England in September after India and South Africa were unable to tour because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cIn a year when cricket has brought us much solace, it is entirely fitting that Cricket West Indies and their men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams should be recognised for the courage of their decision to tour England, an act which truly embodies the spirit of cricket,\u201d MCC President Kumar Sangakkara said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the MCC\u00a0also praised the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket Ireland (CI) for sending their teams to play in England.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/connor-to-become-mccs-first-female-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Former England captain Connor to become MCC\u2019s first female president<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi:\u00a0West Indies\u2019 men\u2019s and women\u2019s cricket team\u2019s decision to tour England this year has rewarded Windies Cricket the Spirit of Cricket Award from the Marylebone <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5172\" title=\"West Indies win MCC\u2019s Spirit of Cricket award\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}