ECR Sport
07H29 ECR Sport
So let's start this one off with some rugby Hollywood bit sharks, coach John Plumtree has made some interesting changes to the squad ahead of their Curry Cup semi-final against the Blue Bulls later today. Now with a total of six changes, one of them is Ethan Hooko shifts from centre to wing in place of Makazolem and Bimpy. And then Andre Esterheisen and Franco Effinta form the new centre partnership, coach Plum says the idea around it is to play around with positions which could be valuable to the squad. Looking to experiment a little bit around how can those midfielders help us in other positions as well, because it's a long season and we do have to rotate the squad and players that can play in a couple of whether they can play at wing, fall back or for midfield are pretty valuable. So we might see a little bit of experimenting in that space. Edwin Keita will sport the number 14 jersey as he takes over from Lillie Besta for the clash at Loftus-Farstfeld, kick off to that one, is at 5 o'clock and then log leaders the Lions should be considered favourites against the defending champions, the Cheetahs when the two sides meet in Johannesburg in the first of the two Curry Cup semi-finals this afternoon at 2.30. Over to football, the focus will be on Kaiser Chiefs who open their PSL campaign at the free state stadium against newly promoted Merumo Gallants today. Defender Inacio Miguel joined Chiefs from Angola inside Pedro de Luanda and hopes for success in the PSL. Yeah, I think I won everything at Pedro Luanda in these two years that I stayed there. So in myself I feel that I need a new challenge and what better than Kaiser Chiefs, the giant slip to start against something different and of course the project in the future made me move here. Royal A.M. host Cape Town City at the Harry Guala Stadium in Peter Maritzburg this afternoon while Polokon is city, tackle Amazur. And then ending off with Formula One, Landon Orris will hope for an improved run in this afternoon's qualifying session for the Azerbaijan F1 Grand Prix and the British driver who's challenging Max Fristappen for the title ended up setting one of the slowest times in second practice after being held up by Alpienz, Pierre Gasly Fristappen has a 62-point lead at the top of the driver's championship with eight races to go. That's all for now. For the East Coast Radio Sports team, I'm Farida Crouch.