{"id":10170,"date":"2012-04-22T04:23:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T02:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/rugby-union-cruden-lifts-chiefs-to-18-12-win-over-sharks\/"},"modified":"2012-04-22T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T02:23:26","slug":"rugby-union-cruden-lifts-chiefs-to-18-12-win-over-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-union-cruden-lifts-chiefs-to-18-12-win-over-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby union-Cruden lifts Chiefs to 18-12 win over Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN, APRIL 21 &#8211; Aaron Cruden scored 13 points as the<br \/>\nWaikato Chiefs beat the Sharks 18-12 on Saturday to return to<br \/>\nthe top of the Super Rugby table.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The home side enjoyed plenty of possession and territorial<br \/>\nsuperiority at Kings Park, but were let down by their handling<br \/>\nskills, allowing the visitors to make it seven wins in a row.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf Cruden scored the first of his two tries in the 19th<br \/>\nminute, and the second came after a clever solo run by<br \/>\nreplacement Augustine Pulu.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All the Sharks&#8217; points came from the boot of their own<br \/>\nflyhalf, Patrick Lambie.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Victory was the second for the Chiefs on tour in South<br \/>\nAfrica after they beat the Central Cheetahs last week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a fantastic result,&#8221; Chiefs captain Craig Clark told<br \/>\nreporters. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t happen too often (winning in South<br \/>\nAfrica), so we&#8217;re pretty chuffed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>John Plumtree&#8217;s Sharks dominated for large parts of the<br \/>\nfirst half but several try-scoring opportunities went begging<br \/>\ndue to careless mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After 19 minutes Cruden ran through a gap in defence to<br \/>\nscore under the posts following good phase play from his team<br \/>\nmates on the right.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The All Blacks number 10 followed it up by adding another<br \/>\npenalty on the half-hour.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURBAN, APRIL 21 &#8211; Aaron Cruden scored 13 points as the Waikato Chiefs beat the Sharks 18-12 on Saturday to return to the top of the Super Rugby table. The home side enjoyed plenty of possession and territorial superiority at Kings Park, but were let down by their handling skills, allowing the visitors to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}