{"id":9831,"date":"2010-02-12T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/02\/12\/england-cricket-star-pleased-with-award\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:46:35","slug":"england-cricket-star-pleased-with-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/12\/england-cricket-star-pleased-with-award\/","title":{"rendered":"England cricket star \u2018pleased\u2019 with award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Third time Lucky! Isa Guha wins at British Asian Sports Awards at third attempt<\/h3>\n
\"\"ENGLAND women\u2019s bowler Isa Guha is celebrating after being crowned Sports Personality of the Year at the British Asian Sports Awards.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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It was third time lucky for the talented cricket star who has lost out on the award on two previous occasions. <\/div>\n

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The award caps off a marvellous year for Guha after winning the Word Cup, the World Twenty20 and the Ashes with the England Women\u2019s Team. <\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is the third time I\u2019ve been nominated and the first time I\u2019ve won, so I am extremely pleased,\u201d she said. <\/div>\n

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\u201cI would like to thank my family for their continual support over the years and my fellow England teammates for making this such a special year. It also shows that women\u2019s cricket is highly regarded in the British Asian community and it is nice to get some recognition.\u201d

\nThe 25-year-old has been a consistent performer for the women\u2019s national team since making her debut at the age of 17. <\/div>\n

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Clare Connor, Head of Women\u2019s Cricket, described Guha as an \u201cinspirational role model\u201d to young Asian women. <\/div>\n

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\u201cOff the pitch she is a terrific ambassador for her sport and is an inspirational role model for young Asian women who have a dream of their own to pursue,\u201d Connor said. \u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are all immensely proud of Isa for being named British Asian Sports Personality of the Year.”

\nEarlier this year Guha joined the Sporting Equals Ambassador Programme, to encourage more girls, especially from ethnic minorities to become involved in sport.

\n\u201cI want to show them that it is possible to study and have a normal career as well as achieving their sporting dreams,\u201d Guha said.

\n\u201cIsa is living proof that playing at the top level does not have to mean sacrificing all else: she has a degree in biochemistry and is working towards her PhD; she has a promising future in science as well as an impressive cricketing CV,\u201d Sporting Equals Chief Executive, Arun Kang added. <\/div>\n

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Third time Lucky! Isa Guha wins at British Asian Sports Awards at third attempt ENGLAND women\u2019s bowler Isa Guha is celebrating after being crowned Sports Personality of the Year at the British Asian Sports Awards. It was third time lucky for the talented cricket star who has lost out on the award on two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}