{"id":138409,"date":"2016-11-16T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/138409\/water-logged-pitch-sees-match-called-off\/"},"modified":"2016-11-16T08:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T06:12:12","slug":"water-logged-pitch-sees-match-called-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/11\/16\/water-logged-pitch-sees-match-called-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Water-logged pitch sees match called off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week of bad weather was the reason why the Germiston City Cricket Club\u2019s away match was called off on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Fourth League of the Easterns Cricket League against the Tsakane Cricket Club was abandoned due to a water-logged pitch.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This meant the teams had to share the match points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really not what we needed, as we need as many wins as possible so that we can move up into the Third League,\u201d said David Ungerer, on behalf of Germiston.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This weekend the team will face their arch rivals, the Bedfordview Cricket Club, in a humdinger of a home match at the Germiston City Sports Grounds on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you might also be interested in reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137684\/germiston-lose-rain-affected-match\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston lose rain-affected match<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137000\/germiston-continue-their-winning-streak\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston continue their winning streak<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/136357\/germiston-beat-back-springs-old-boys\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston beat back Springs Old Boys<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='291409c55e2d4893c4d679e0884a994e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City Cricket Club\u2019s weekend match was called off due to a water-logged pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":138526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,11,3],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-138409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}