{"id":33062,"date":"2026-03-03T05:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=33062"},"modified":"2026-03-03T05:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:30:55","slug":"whole-new-ball-game-singapore-should-tap-cricket-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=33062","title":{"rendered":"Whole new ball game: Singapore should tap cricket tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Singapore has built a strong reputation as a host for world-class sporting events, but it could do better. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Formula One cars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/multimedia\/photos\/in-pictures-george-russell-wins-f1-singapore-grand-prix-for-mercedes?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">roar through the streets<\/p>\n<p><\/a> around Marina Bay and the Padang each September or October. Every year, tennis stars compete at the Singapore Open, badminton champions battle it out at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sport\/tough-battle-but-local-table-tennis-players-ready-for-fight-at-spore-smash?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Singapore Smash<\/p>\n<p><\/a> features the world\u2019s top table tennis players at The Kallang<!-- --> <!-- -->and professional golfers tee off at tournaments that attract international stars. Yet there is one sport conspicuously missing from this impressive portfolio: cricket, which commands more than a billion passionate followers, most of them in Asia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/opinion\/whole-new-ball-game-singapore-should-tap-cricket-tourism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore has built a strong reputation as a host for world-class sporting events, but it could do better. Formula One cars roar through the streets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}