{"id":953588,"date":"2026-11-05T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953588\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:04:19","slug":"jersey-cricket-team-playing-at-highest-level-ever-says-zak-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953588\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey cricket: Team playing at highest level ever says Zak Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tribe, 25, was named best batter at the final round of Challenge League A matches while team-mate Josh Lawrenson was named best player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tribe hit his highest-ever international score of 150 in Jersey&#8217;s win over Papua New Guinea while he also made 65 against hosts Kenya and 53 against Qatar, as well as taking nine wickets over the five matches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as Challenge League A rivals Kuwait and hosts Nepal, Jersey will face Italy, Canada, Uganda, Namibia and the United Arab Emirates next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c0qv81de83do\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosted the UAE and Nepal in July<\/a> in preparation matches, being defeated in all four of their games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to think that we could progress, but it is going to be a challenge,&#8221; Tribe  added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The sides coming up &#8211; Italy, Uganda &#8211; they&#8217;re both strong. Kuwait obviously beat us in this last round so we know that we&#8217;ve got to be on it against them too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Then the four sides that we&#8217;re joining in that group, Namibia, Nepal, Canada and UAE, they&#8217;re sides that have been playing ODI cricket all year round for the last three years and years prior to that as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So they are going to be very strong sides and we know that we&#8217;re going to have to play well when we come up against them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But with the experience we&#8217;ve had of playing Nepal and UAE earlier on in the year, we&#8217;re able to take things from those games to learn how we can better play these games with matchups and what it&#8217;s like to play at that level as well, the intensity of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think we can do well, we can definitely turn over a few of those sides and ultimately we&#8217;ll be trying to finish in that top half of the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tribe, 25, was named best batter at the final round of Challenge League A matches while team-mate Josh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-953588","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\/953588","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=953588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}