{"id":237677,"date":"2026-06-28T18:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-eagles-sweep-to-series-win\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:16:54","slug":"namibia-eagles-sweep-to-series-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-eagles-sweep-to-series-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Eagles Sweep to Series Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>The FNB Namibian Eagles wrapped up the T20 Tri-Nations series with another commanding win and an unbeaten record on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Namibia beat Nigeria by 93 runs after scoring 220\/5 and then restricting Nigeria to 127\/9 to finish on top of the log on eight points, followed by Hong Kong on four and Nigeria on zero points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Namibia&#8217;s upcoming youngsters once again played a major role in the victory with Alex Volschenk scoring 73 and Junior Taanyaanda 35, while captain Gerhard Erasmus added a quickfire&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250243.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 wrapped up the T20 Tri-Nations series with another commanding win and an unbeaten record on Tuesday. Namibia beat Nigeria by 93 runs after scoring 220\/5 and then restricting Nigeria to 127\/9 to finish on top of the log on eight points, followed by Hong Kong on four and Nigeria on zero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237678,"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":[258,256,5232,4706,724,257,6761,254,9412,6660],"class_list":["post-237677","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-series","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sweep","tag-win"],"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\/237677","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=237677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}