{"id":234681,"date":"2025-07-03T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234681\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:22:09","slug":"guernsey-lose-warm-up-matches-ahead-of-t20-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234681\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey lose warm-up matches ahead of T20 World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Guernsey heavily lost both of their final warm-up matches leading into their T20 World Cup qualifiers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The islanders were beaten by 59 runs by hosts the Netherlands on Tuesday before a 56-run loss to Italy on Wednesday in Utrecht.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The games were part of Guernsey&#8217;s last preparations before the final stage of European qualifying for next year&#8217;s tournament in India and Sri Lanka begins on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as the Dutch and Italians, Guernsey will also face Scotland and Channel Island rivals Jersey in the round robin event with the top two sides going through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the first warm-up game, hosts the Netherlands scored 164-6 off their 20 overs as opener Michael Levitt hit 70 off 46 balls before retiring while Scott Edwards got 40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teenage bowler Charlie Forshaw was the pick of the Guernsey attack as he took 3-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In reply, Guernsey could only make 105-9 from their 20 overs as opener Ben Fitchett and Zak Damarell each scored 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey heavily lost both of their final warm-up matches leading into their T20 World Cup qualifiers. The islanders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-234681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114789282338576659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}