{"id":611777,"date":"2026-04-16T23:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611777\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:58:35","slug":"jersey-play-historic-fixture-at-lords-against-mcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611777\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey play historic fixture at Lord&#8217;s against MCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey&#8217;s national team played two T20 matches as they took to the field at Lord&#8217;s for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home side, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), won the first tie by eight wickets, with Travis Norris hitting a century from 59 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the second match, MCC scored 124-5 and seemed to be in the driving seat until Charlie Brennan hit 63 not out and captain Charles Perchard struck a four to clinch the win for the island side with just two wickets left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fixtures on Thursday formed part of the Jersey&#8217;s preparations for their upcoming ICC T20 Men&#8217;s World Cup qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey&#8217;s national team played two T20 matches as they took to the field at Lord&#8217;s for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-611777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611777","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=611777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}