{"id":9267,"date":"2012-03-24T15:26:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/rugby-carter-back-as-crusaders-return-home-with-win-over-cheetahs\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T15:26:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:26:28","slug":"rugby-carter-back-as-crusaders-return-home-with-win-over-cheetahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-carter-back-as-crusaders-return-home-with-win-over-cheetahs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Carter back as Crusaders return home with win over Cheetahs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 24<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The Canterbury Crusaders were given a<br \/>\nscare by the Cheetahs but rallied to secure a 28-21 Super Rugby<br \/>\nvictory in their first match in their home city of Christchurch<br \/>\nfor nearly two years on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All Black flyhalf Dan Carter played the second half in his<br \/>\nfirst match since being injured at the World Cup and had a role<br \/>\nin a back move that resulted in fullback Israel Dagg crossing to<br \/>\nsecure the victory five minutes from time.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Cheetahs confirmed their reputation as one of Super<br \/>\nRugby&#8217;s most entertaining teams with fine second half tries from<br \/>\nteenager Johan Goosen and replacement back Sias Ebersohn, the<br \/>\nfirst of which will be a contender for try of the season.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The seven-times champion Crusaders would have wanted a more<br \/>\nconvincing win after Sean Maitland and Robbie Fruean had put<br \/>\nthem in charge with tries in eight minutes around the halftime<br \/>\nbreak.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having not been able to play in Christchurch since the<br \/>\ndeadly February 2011 earthquake wrecked their Lancaster Park<br \/>\nstadium and coming into the match on the back of two defeats,<br \/>\nhowever, a victory of any sort was welcomed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good to get back to winning ways,&#8221; Crusaders captain<br \/>\nKieran Read said in a pitchside interview at the packed<br \/>\n17,000-seater Christchurch Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is going to be our fortress and we&#8217;re looking forward<br \/>\nto getting back here in a couple of weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A forgettable first half was drawing to a close with the<br \/>\nCrusaders 6-3 ahead when Maitland scored the first try at the<br \/>\nnew stadium after his fellow winger Zac Guildford had created<br \/>\nspace outside with a strong thrust into the heart of the<br \/>\nCheetahs&#8217; defence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Centre Fruean cut through the same defence with his<br \/>\ncharacteristic power and pace four minutes after the restart and<br \/>\nwhen Tom Taylor converted the home side had a 18-3 lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The Canterbury Crusaders were given a scare by the Cheetahs but rallied to secure a 28-21 Super Rugby victory in their first match in their home city of Christchurch for nearly two years on Saturday. All Black flyhalf Dan Carter played the second half in his first match since being injured [&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-9267","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\/9267","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=9267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}