{"id":241579,"date":"2025-07-06T02:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241579\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T02:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:18:18","slug":"guernsey-lose-t20-world-cup-qualifier-to-italy-by-seven-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241579\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey lose T20 World Cup qualifier to Italy by seven wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guernsey made a poor start as Adam Martel was run out for one at the end of the first over. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin-Dale Bradley and Ben Fitchet put on 33 for the second wicket before the former was caught by former Australia Test player Joe Burns for 18. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fitchet was trapped lbw by Harry Manenti two balls later as Guernsey slumped to 36-3 off 5.4 overs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Stokes went on to make 13 while Tom Nightingale\u2019s 35 provided the backbone of Guernsey\u2019s innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But after Nightingale was caught and bowled by Benjamin Manenti for 35, Guernsey lost three wickets for just one run to leave them on 101-8 off 16.4 overs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ollie Nightingale scored 17 before he was caught off the penultimate ball of the innings as the Sarnians ended on 122-9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Bichard took Emilio Gay\u2019s wicket in the first over for eight as Italy\u2019s reply began with a stutter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But they recovered well as Mosca and Burns (30) put on 62 for the second wicket before Harry Manenti hit 22 off 22 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manenti was dismissed after 13.3 overs but Mosca guided the Italians home with an impressive 37-ball knock that included three sixes and six fours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey made a poor start as Adam Martel was run out for one at the end of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-241579","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\/114803894152319504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241579","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=241579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}