{"id":229328,"date":"2020-02-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/229328\/tough-weekend-for-eagles-3\/"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:34:34","slug":"tough-weekend-for-eagles-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2020\/02\/04\/tough-weekend-for-eagles-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough weekend for Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Byline: Leigh Hodgson<\/p>\n

The Elsburg Eagles Cricket Club have begun the second leg of their Easterns Cricket League campaign.<\/p>

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This weekend the u-10 team played host to Tsakane Cricket Club and the seniors hosted Benoni Northerns Cricket Club in the Sunday Directors League and United Cricket Club in the Sunday Presidents League.<\/p>\n

The matches were played at the club\u2019s home grounds, the Elsburg Sports Complex, on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.<\/p>

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In the club\u2019s Sunday Directors League match Elsburg lost the toss and were sent in to field first.<\/p>\n

Benoni were able to knock-up a target of 249 runs, all out, in their 50 allotted overs, despite Elsburg seeming to have the upper hand in the first few overs of the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had taken seven wickets for just 70 runs in 17 overs,\u201d explained club chairperson Martiens Grobler.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, we were unable to keep up the momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day\u2019s top bowlers were Darren van Tonder with four wickets in 10 overs for 39 runs and Theuns Herbst with three wickets in seven overs for 45 runs.<\/p>\n