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BBC News
29-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Jersey out of T20 World Cup qualifiers after Sweden loss
Jersey's hopes of reaching the Women's T20 World Cup are over after they surprisingly lost to bottom side Sweden by 18 skipper Chloe Greechan had taken a hat-trick for the islanders as they restricted the Swedes to in reply, Jersey's batting woes continued as Gaya Jayaweera took a hat-trick and the islanders were bowled out for 110 in 18 overs. The loss means any hopes Jersey had of catching Germany for second place, and a spot in the first division of European qualifying later this year, are over. Jersey were the second-highest ranked side going into the six-team round-robin tournament but won just two beat Spain and the Isle of Man after losing to hosts and tournament winners Italy and the Germans in their first two games. Swedish openers Anya Vaidya (25) and Eman Asim (45) put on 64 for the opening wicket. Elsa Thelander's 21 not out held the innings together as Jersey took regular wickets before Greechan got her hat-trick with the final three deliveries of the innings to return figures of reply, Jersey's poor form with the bat continued. They were reduced to 22-3 off four overs as top order batters Analise Merritt, Grace Wetherall and Mia Maguire scored eight runs between it not for opener Aimee Aikenhead's 58 not out the islanders would have been lucky to make 50 - extras of 28 were the second-highest contributor to Jersey's total as no other player scored more than eight runs. Their poor display was typified when Jayaweera dismissed Annabel Mossop, Nia Greig and Kate Follain in successive balls in the 16th over to leave Jersey on tried her best to bring Jersey home as she hit eight boundaries in a 53-ball knock. But when tail-ender Olivia Bastin was caught off Jayaweera for a seven-ball duck, the game was over as Jersey were bowled out for 110 off 18 overs. "We've just got to regroup as a team and take a lot of positives away from this tournament," Greechan said after the game."There are lots of things to improve on, but overall there's mixed emotions in the camp right now."
BBC News
22-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Tremendous' Jersey win six out of six in Cyprus
Jersey put in a "tremendous" performance as they won all six of their T20 international matches in Cyprus over islanders faced Isle of Man, Denmark and the hosts as part of preparations for next month's T20 World Cup qualifying tournament in Rome. Jersey beat the Isle of Man by nine wickets and eight wickets in their two games, registered 76-run and eight-wicket wins over Cyprus and beat Denmark by 145 runs and eight batter Aimee Aikenhead hit 220 runs in the six games while Analise Merritt scored Chole Greechan and Florence Tanguy each took 10 wickets across the six matches in the Cyprus WT20I Cup. "It was tremendous," head coach Darren Thomas told BBC Sport."The girls have put a lot of hard work in this winter and they've reaped a little bit of reward for it in preparation for our Rome Division Two competition at the back end of May."We were challenged two to three times during the six games when we were put under real pressure."But I think it's testament to the girls' confidence, the way they've gone about their business since our T10 success in Malaga and the way they're embracing the training and philosophy towards T10 and T20 cricket." Jersey will face Isle of Man again along with Germany, Sweden, Spain and hosts Italy in Rome next top two sides will progress to Division One of European qualifying for the 2026 Women's T20 World Cup and a top-two finish in that tournament would secure a spot in the Global Qualifier. Jersey will hope to improve on the third place they achieved in the same tournament two years ago when they hosted the event."Confidence is everything in sport," added Thomas."We had a lot of confidence from our T10 competition back in December, then went to Gibraltar and played two T20 internationals and did very well in them."The girls are on a very good winning streak currently. We've had a lot of success and confidence is breeding throughout the squad at the moment, which is really nice to see."
