{"id":139097,"date":"2016-11-23T08:37:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T06:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=139097"},"modified":"2016-11-23T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T09:31:02","slug":"eagles-suffer-promotion-league-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/11\/23\/eagles-suffer-promotion-league-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles suffer Promotion League loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg Eagles Cricket Club travelled to Willowmoore Park, on Sunday, to face the Tembisa Cricket Club in their Promotion League match.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors lost the toss and were asked to bat first, posting an impressive score of 181, all out, in their 50 overs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Kobus Black was the day\u2019s top- scorer, making 63 runs before going out.<\/p>\n<p>It was then Tembisa\u2019s turn to bat, and the home side was able to beat the target in just 42 overs, therefore, winning the match by two runs, with five wickets in hand.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Eagles&#8217; top bowler was Billy Millar, who claimed three wickets in his 10 overs for 45 runs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unexplainable happened this weekend, as we were sure we had Tembisa on the ropes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, they managed to turn it around,\u201d said Martiens Grobler, on behalf of the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles will have to shake off this weekend\u2019s loss as they dive into a weekend packed with matches.<\/p>\n<p>The team will first face Boksburg Cricket Club, in the Second League, in an away match on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, at 9am, the club will play in the Promotion League, at the Scaw Main Oval in Dinwiddie, against the Avion Cricket Club, and then, at noon, in the Presidents League, at the Elspark Sports Complex, against the Bakerton YS Cricket Club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/138430\/one-win-and-one-loss-for-elsburg-eagles-cricket-club\/\" target=\"_blank\">One win and one loss for Elsburg Eagles Cricket Club<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/136999\/elsburg-continue-easterns-cricket-league-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elsburg continue Easterns Cricket League campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/136361\/tough-weekend-for-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tough weekend for Eagles\u00a0<\/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='3e43ffcefea2ff86001077bae8b4bb1a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg Eagles Cricket Club continued their Easterns Cricket League, with a loss in their Promotion League match on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":139098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,2362,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-139097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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-south-africa","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","South Africa","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139097","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}