{"id":243013,"date":"2025-07-06T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243013\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T15:39:11","slug":"scotlands-world-cup-hopes-dented-as-guernsey-tie-rained-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243013\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s World Cup hopes dented as Guernsey tie rained off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier: Guernsey v Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match abandoned<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scotland&#8217;s T20 World Cup hopes suffered a blow as their opening match of the Europe Qualifier against Guernsey was rained off without a ball being bowled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain delayed the toss at Voorburg Cricket Club in the Hague and with no break in the weather, the match was abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With the Netherlands and Italy having beaten Jersey and Guernsey respectively on Saturday, Scotland will now have to play catch-up in the round-robin format.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Watson&#8217;s side take on the Dutch on Tuesday before facing Italy on Wednesday. They wrap up the qualifier against Jersey on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland head coach Watson told BBC Scotland: &#8220;Not ideal, but it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is disappointing. The players have worked hard and trained hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We take nothing for granted. Ideally, we would have played and won, but we can only focus on what&#8217;s ahead of us and our next game is the Dutch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751816351_679_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier: Guernsey v Scotland Match abandoned Scotland&#8217;s T20 World Cup hopes suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[26186,748,94442,94443,4884,7909,712,7379,16,15,94441],"class_list":{"0":"post-243013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-bbc-scotland","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-doug-watson","11":"tag-europe-qualifier","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-guernsey","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-t20-world-cup","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-voorburg-cricket-club"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114807043822303843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243013","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=243013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}