{"id":15518,"date":"2014-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/15518\/local-talent-shines-indoors\/"},"modified":"2014-07-28T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T05:26:24","slug":"local-talent-shines-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/local-sports\/2014\/07\/28\/local-talent-shines-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Local talent shines indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven of the nine players in the team &#8211; Aiden Vandenbrouck (captain), David Blenkinsop (vice-captain), Andrew Martin, Aidan Viljoen, Alec Jordaan, Craig Russell and Gysbert Ehlers &#8211; are from Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>They played 12 games to be placed second on the log, having lost only the first game by three runs to the Titans (the tournament favourites).<\/p>\n<p>Mpumalanga was the only team with a points difference of over a 1000 runs. They had 1058 compared to nearest rivals, the Titans, who had 873.<\/p>\n<p>Aiden&#8217;s team defeated Eastern Province to book a place in the semi-finals, where they were victorious against Gauteng Vikings to meet the Titans in the final. In dramatic fashion and showing some Middie guts, they were crowned as the champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U\/15 Mpumalanga Indoor Cricket Team are the ICSA Champions, after beating the Gauteng Titans in the final of the National Indoor Cricket Tournament in Pretoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":15519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}