Easterns cricket team
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Easterns cricket team has played first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 since October 1991.

For the purposes of the SuperSport Series
SuperSport Series
The SuperSport Series is the main domestic first class cricket competition in South Africa, first contested in 1889-90. From 1990-91 it became known as the Castle Cup, and from 1996-97 by its current title...

, Easterns has merged with Northerns
Northerns cricket team
Northerns cricket team has played first-class cricket in South Africa since December 1937....

 (formerly North Eastern Transvaal) to form the Titans
Titans cricket team
The Nashua Titans is the name used by the combined Easterns and Northerns first class cricket teams in South Africa. The home venues of the Titans are at SuperSport Park, Centurion and Willowmoore Park, Benoni...

.

Honours

  • Currie Cup (1) - 2002–03; shared (0) -
  • Standard Bank Cup (0) -
  • South African Airways Provincial Three-Day Challenge (0) -
  • South African Airways Provincial One-Day Challenge (0) -

Club history

Easterns was called Eastern Transvaal from October 1991 until February 1995, changing its name after the Transvaal
Transvaal Province
Transvaal Province was a province of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1961, and of its successor, the Republic of South Africa, from 1961 until the end of apartheid in 1994 when a new constitution subdivided it.-History:...

 became Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

. It has been part of the Titans from October 2004.

Venues

Venues have included:
  • PAM Brink Stadium, Springs
    Springs, Gauteng
    Springs is a city on the East Rand in the Gauteng province of South Africa.It lies 50 km east of Johannesburg. The name of the city derives from the large number of springs in the area; it has a population of more than 200,000, and is situated at 5,340 ft a.s.l...

     (Jan 1992 - Jan 1996)
  • Olympia Park, Springs (used once Nov 1994; formerly an occasional Northerns venue Dec 1937 - Nov 1994)
  • ahara Park Willowmoore Benoni
    Benoni, Gauteng
    Benoni is a city with 654,509 inhabitants on the East Rand in the South African province of Gauteng. Since 2000, it has been part of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.- History :...

    (main venue Nov 1996 - 2010)
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