{"id":184266,"date":"2025-12-14T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/184266\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:57:07","slug":"jersey-and-guernsey-drawn-together-in-2028-t20-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/184266\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey and Guernsey drawn together in 2028 T20 World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey and Guernsey will face each other in the first round of qualifying for the 2028 T20 World Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Channel Island sides have been drawn to play in Qualifier A in Cyprus between 16 and 23 May, with the winners side progressing to the final round of European qualification. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first time ever, both teams reached the final qualifier for the 2026 T20 World Cup earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey &#8211; who have made final qualification for each of the last five T20 World Cups &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c6250vv7ngro\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat first-time qualifiers Guernsey by 22 runs<\/a> when they met in the Netherlands in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The island sides have been drawn alongside Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Malta, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland in Qualifier A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c4gd87238pdo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jersey beat in the summer,<\/a> are in Qualifier B being hosted by Denmark next July, while Qualifier C takes place in Finland in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three group winners will progress to a round against the European sides that qualified for the 2026 T20 World Cup, Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey and Guernsey will face each other in the first round of qualifying for the 2028 T20 World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-184266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}