{"id":548609,"date":"2026-03-18T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548609\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:24:14","slug":"guernsey-women-cricketers-to-play-tournament-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548609\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey women cricketers to play tournament in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guernsey will play in the Women&#8217;s Continental Cricket Cup in Romania in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tournament will be the first international games for the island side since 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will take on the hosts, as well as Norway, Czech Republic and Malta in T20 matches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guernsey played just one game last year when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c75rvz6ny4eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they lost heavily to Channel Island rivals Jersey<\/a> &#8211; they last played overseas in 2024 when they competed in the Nordic Cup in Norway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The launch of the Women&#8217;s Super League last year was a significant milestone for Guernsey Cricket,&#8221; said head coach Ilze Van Der Westhuizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has created depth, competitiveness, and consistency within the women&#8217;s game locally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We now have a strong domestic platform from which to select our national squad, and this tournament presents an exciting opportunity to test ourselves internationally.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey will play in the Women&#8217;s Continental Cricket Cup in Romania in August. The tournament will be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-548609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}