{"id":681346,"date":"2026-05-19T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:42:09","slug":"guernsey-beat-austria-take-control-of-t20-world-cup-qualifying-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681346\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey beat Austria take control of T20 World Cup qualifying group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having lost the toss and been put into bat opener Josh Butler and Tom Nightingale set a good foundation for the Guernsey innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Butler, who was dropped on 31, and Nightingale went on to get 83 for the second wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nightingale was caught towards the end of the 11th over having smashed five sixes and four fours in his 25-ball knock of 55 to leave Guernsey on 106-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Stokes replaced him and provided great support to Butler who went on to score 68 before being caught with the score on 148-3 &#8211; his 49-ball innings saw him hit five fours and three sixes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stokes went on to make 42 as Guernsey ended on 196-7 from their 20 overs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In reply Austria\u2019s top order batters were no match for the Guernsey attack &#8211; only opener Katanbir Singh put up any resistance with a knock of 59 off 30 balls that included six sixes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When he was caught off Matt Stokes\u2019 bowling Austria were left on 96-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the lower order proved to be more stubborn they were never able to get close to the run rate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Bichard took 3-24 and Ed Robinson 3-34 as Austria were bowled out for 150 in 17.4 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having lost the toss and been put into bat opener Josh Butler and Tom Nightingale set a good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-681346","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\/681346","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=681346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}