{"id":827667,"date":"2026-07-27T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827667\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:47:12","slug":"jersey-lose-to-united-arab-emirates-despite-nick-greenwood-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827667\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey lose to United Arab Emirates despite Nick Greenwood century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey&#8217;s batters had one of their most impressive showings against a side that plays in the ICC&#8217;s Cricket World Cup League Two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stand-in skipper Harrison Carlyon scored 37 while fellow opener Patrick Gouge made 30 before both went in quick succession to leave the islanders on 76-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Greenwood and Zak Tribe made 72 for the third wicket before Tribe was bowled for 30 with Jersey on 148-3 off 29.2 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jonty Jenner joined Greenwood and the big hitting Jersey batter scored 50 off 40 balls, including two sixes, before being bowled as they moved the score onto 250-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greenwood and Charlie Brennan (40 not out) added another 56 runs before the New Zealand-based first class player was caught for 102 off 92 balls that included four sixes and six fours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In reply, the UAE kept pace with the run rate as Sharma carried his bat through the innings with his 133-ball knock of 131 that saw him hit 16 fours and a six. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had a second wicket stand of 104 with Muhammad Shahdad (71) and a 115-run partnership with his replacement Rahul Chopra before the latter was caught off Greenwood&#8217;s bowling for 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Emiratis clinched the victory with two overs to spare as Sohaib Khan ended on 29 not out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey&#8217;s batters had one of their most impressive showings against a side that plays in the ICC&#8217;s Cricket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-827667","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\/827667","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=827667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}