{"id":129759,"date":"2022-10-14T09:40:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=129759"},"modified":"2022-10-14T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:40:50","slug":"gentlemens-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/14\/gentlemens-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentlemen\u2019s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wright State University <a href=\"https:\/\/wright.campuslabs.com\/engage\/organization\/indian-student-association\">Indian Student Association<\/a> hosted a two-day cricket tournament on the baseball field near Parking Lot 4.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participation in the annual tournament has doubled since 2016. This year, over 80 wright state international students on eight different teams participated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">International student enrollment has increased over the past several years, said Michelle Streeter-Ferrari, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/international-education\">University Center for International Education<\/a>. This semester 1,040 international students are enrolled at Wright State with the majority traveling from India and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Streeter-Ferrari said having international students on campus is essential for Wright State\u2019s academic programs and diversifying the student body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s also important for the cultural and cross-cultural experiences that all students are getting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each team in the tournament played a minimum of three games, with the top teams qualifying for a playoff.\u00a0Team Anantha Vijaya emerged victorious this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prem Sagar Reddy, a sophomore majoring in computer science, said every team has its own strategy to win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJust like football and soccer, cricket has its own strategies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vamshidhar Thummala, a Wright State alumnus who played in the tournament participant said he\u2019s watched the campus participation increase and was excited to welcome new players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s a team game, it\u2019s a tactical game, so it\u2019s all mindset,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thummala said cricket is often referred to as a gentlemen\u2019s game because it\u2019s comforting and not rough, which is why it\u2019s one of the most popular sports in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State University Indian Student Association hosted a two-day cricket tournament. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/14\/gentlemens-game\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":129760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,2046,715,2113,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-international-students","category-news","category-university-center-for-international-education","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132029,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129759\/revisions\/132029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}