{"id":8402,"date":"2015-05-15T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T09:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=8402"},"modified":"2015-05-16T00:50:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T00:50:38","slug":"inter-varsity-cricket-ukm-determined-to-retain-its-champion-status","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/july-2010\/inter-varsity-cricket-ukm-determined-to-retain-its-champion-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter-Varsity Cricket: UKM determined to retain its champion status"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Fjuly-2010%2Finter-varsity-cricket-ukm-determined-to-retain-its-champion-status%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=8402&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/kriket.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FRIDAY, 16 JULY 2010 20:16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">BANGI, 16 July, 2010<strong> &#8211; <\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"MS\">Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia\u2019s (UKM) cricket team, is determined to retain its championship status against four other teams in the International Inter-Varsity Cricket Invitational Championships from July 19 to August 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">The team expects to face stiff competition from The University of Western Australia which comprises players from the State Sport\u2019s Excellence Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">UKM team supervisor, Encik Fairus Shafie said the UKM team is determined to repeat its feat last year with the players undergoing daily training since early this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">UKM\u2019s confidence is boosted by the presence of eight of its players being members of the national cricket team with the team consisting of players with an average of 18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">Teams from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of Western Australia (UWA) are making their debut, while the other two teams are from the University of Colombo and Christ University India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">The championship, formerly called the Asian Inter-Varsity Invitational championship, offers a prize money of RM4,800 for the champion, RM3,200 to the runner-up and RM2,560 to the third-placed team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">UKM were last year\u2019s champions defeating Chittagong University. On the home front, UKM, with eight national players, recently emerged champions in the Inter-varsity 2010 Championships and the Stoner Shield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">The matches will be played at Oval Cricket Bayuemas, Klang, Oval Cricket UKM and Oval Cricket Kinrara in Puchong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"MS\">UKM team<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"MS\">: Ahmad Faiz Mohamed Noor, Mohd Shafiq Mohd Sharif, Aminuddin Ramly, Mohd Farouk Hakimin, Nik Azril Nik Ariffin, Mohd Shahruknizam Yusof, Zaid Asyraf Nor Azmi, Derek Michael Duris, Faris Almas-Lee.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, 16 JULY 2010 20:16 BANGI, 16 July, 2010 &#8211; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia\u2019s (UKM) cricket team, is determined to retain<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/july-2010\/inter-varsity-cricket-ukm-determined-to-retain-its-champion-status\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8421,"parent":1392,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8402","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8402\/revisions\/8414"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}