{"id":205155,"date":"2025-08-21T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-eagles-off-to-tentative-start\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:51:04","slug":"namibia-eagles-off-to-tentative-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-eagles-off-to-tentative-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Eagles Off to Tentative Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>The FNB Namibian Eagles&#8217; tour of Canada got off to a tentative start with a narrow 10-run victory against Canada A in Toronto on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">After winning the toss and electing to bat, Namibia crashed to 43 for eight wickets before a JJ Smit-led revival saw them recovering to 87 all out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">It was not much of a total to defend, but Namibia&#8217;s bowlers responded in style to skittle Canada A out for 77 to seal a narrow victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Namibia&#8217;s innings got off to a slow start before Canadian pace bowler Zahid&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210474.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FNB Namibian Eagles&#8217; tour of Canada got off to a tentative start with a narrow 10-run victory against Canada A in Toronto on Monday. After winning the toss and electing to bat, Namibia crashed to 43 for eight wickets before a JJ Smit-led revival saw them recovering to 87 all out. It was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,5232,4706,724,257,254,7138,32674],"class_list":["post-205155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eagles","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-tentative"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}