Guernsey’s struggles with the bat began very early as having seen Ben Fitchet survive a very strong appeal from the final ball of the first over, Martin Dale Bradley was trapped by Blampied for one at the start of the next.<\/p>\n
Carlyon bowled Tom Nightingale for one with the first ball of the next over before taking Fitchet’s wicket with the final delivery as Guernsey slumped to 4-3.<\/p>\n
But Stokes and skipper Nightingale steadied the innings with an excellent fourth-wicket century partnership of 122 – adding 50 runs between the ninth and 14th overs as they tried to haul Guernsey back up with the required run rate. <\/p>\n
Nightingale registered his maiden international half-century and made 57 off 52 balls before he was run out with three balls left of the final over. <\/p>\n
Stokes’ 62 not out came off 49 balls and was his second half-century against Jersey in as many games but it was in a losing cause.<\/p>\n
Jersey head coach Paul Hutchison: <\/b><\/p>\n
“It’s nice to get a good win against a good team.<\/p>\n
“We started pretty well, we targeted around 150 to 160, so to put 160 on the board after a tough start was pleasing.<\/p>\n
“We want to have a top eight that can go on and post a good score so it gives us a decent chance at the back end.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to keep chipping away at points, we’re going to collect as many points as we can and then see where it all falls.”<\/p>\n
Guernsey captain Ollie Nightingale: <\/b><\/p>\n
“It’s disappointing, I guess, we know Jersey pretty well.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t get the start that we needed, but we came back into the game nicely but it wasn’t meant to be.<\/p>\n
“Stokesy was awesome again and luckily I scored a few, but at the end of the day we’ve come here to try and win games of cricket and today it didn’t happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey’s struggles with the bat began very early as having seen Ben Fitchet survive a very strong appeal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248758","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\/114819218252511631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248758","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=248758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}