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BBC News
28-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Jersey beat Isle of Man to keep World Cup hope alive
Jersey batter Trinity Smith helped keep the island's T20 Women's World Cup hopes alive as she hit 44 in a 49-run win over the Isle of Man in their European Division Two Jersey slumped to 54-5 off nine overs, Smith and skipper Chloe Greechan came together and put on 74 runs in 9.4 overs as Jersey ended on 140-6 in reply, Isle of Man - who lost twice to Jersey in a warm-up tournament last month - could only make 91 all out in 17.1 overs as Analise Merritt took win keeps Jersey's hopes of a top-two finish in the six-team round-robin event alive and, with it, progress to the final round of European qualifying in move up to second place in the group, ahead of Germany thanks to a better run rate after the Germans were beaten by hosts Italians are now guaranteed to qualify, having won all four of their matches, but Germany have a game in hand on Jersey and will progress if they win both of their final two games, having beaten the islanders on face bottom side Sweden in their final fixture on Friday morning. Having lost the toss, Jersey started well with Merritt and Aimee Aikenhead putting on 36 for the first Merritt was caught for 24 midway through the sixth over and Grace Wetherall was out for a duck with the very next was sloppily run out an over later for 11 before Florence Tanguy was caught for four to leave Jersey on 45-4 as Alanya Thorpe took 3-25. Smith was lucky not to be caught soon after, before she and skipper Greechan came together for the sixth Jersey's middle and lower order having struggled all tournament, the pressure was on the pair but they delivered to stabilise the innings as each picked their knock came off 40 balls and included five fours while Greechan went on to hit 28 not out from 32 balls to guide Jersey to reply, the Manx batters could not deal with Jersey's superior bowling attack as they slumped to 28-4 off 5.1 and Tanguy each took two wickets as Clare Crowe's career-best knock of 25 off 32 balls was the only real Manx when she was run out to take the score to 91-9, Jersey wasted little time in finishing the game off as Greechan took the remaining wicket with the next delivery.
BBC News
27-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Disappointing start for Jersey's cricketers in Rome
Jersey face an uphill struggle to reach the next round of qualifying for the T20 World Cup after losing two of their opening three matches in islanders, who are playing in the Europe Division Two Qualifier 2025, are third in their group and must reach the top two in the six-team group with two games to lost to the hosts by seven wickets in their opening game before being beaten by seven runs by Germany in their second recovered to defeat Spain by seven wickets in their third game and are third in the group, two points off Germany and four behind Italy. Poor batting hindered the islanders in their defeats against the two strongest opponents Jersey will face in the hosts, they got off to a good start as 77 from Analise Merritt and 35 from Grace Wetherall saw the pair put on a 74-run second-wicket the tournament's highest-ranked side took control as Jersey went from 92-2 after Wetherall was run out in the 10th over to 117-6 four overs other Jersey batter made double figures as bowler Kumudu Peddrick had figures of 3-28 as Jersey made 162-9 in 20 reply, Italy reached their target with an over to spare, with Dilaisha Nanayakkara's 86 off 54 balls providing the foundation as they hit 163-3 in reply. It was another disappointing batting performance on Monday after Jersey had restricted Germany to 106-6 in what was a crucial second game against a side below them in the ICC was excellent with the ball, taking 4-17 as just three Germans made double in reply, opener Merritt's 25 from 21 balls was Jersey's top score - Florence Tanguy hit 19 and Wetherall 11 as Jersey were restricted to 99-8 from their 20 was better news later on Monday, with victory over Spain - Jersey restricted their opponents to 94-5 with four different bowlers taking needed just 11 overs to reach their target as opener Aimee Aikenhead scored 32 not out off 34 balls, while Merritt got 21 and Wetherall 26 as they ended on islanders will face Isle of Man on Wednesday and winless Sweden on must win their remaining games and hope Italy beat Germany to have a realistic chance of getting second place in the group and a spot in the top tier of European qualifying in August.
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."
