{"id":870381,"date":"2026-08-27T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870381\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:22:14","slug":"jersey-building-attacking-style-for-2027-cricket-world-cup-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870381\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey building attacking style for 2027 Cricket World Cup bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey Cricket&#8217;s head coach Neil MacRae has set his sights on the &#8220;ambitious&#8221; goal of reaching the 2027 Cricket World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The islanders are fresh off the back of drawing a two-match, 50-over series against Scotland A in Glasgow, which MacRae described as &#8220;exceptional&#8221; and &#8220;really competitive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey lost the first contest by a single run on Tuesday with Scotland posting 301, and beat the hosts by 25 runs in the second warm-up match ahead of the ICC Men&#8217;s ODI Cricket World Cup Play-off Qualifier in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on the chances of qualifying, MacRae told BBC Radio Jersey: &#8220;We&#8217;re definitely ambitious, and it&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been working on all summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re building a style of cricket we think is really attacking and should be exciting for spectators to watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;More importantly it will really put pressure on opposition sides, so that is what we will continue to develop.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey Cricket&#8217;s head coach Neil MacRae has set his sights on the &#8220;ambitious&#8221; goal of reaching the 2027&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-870381","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\/870381","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=870381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}