{"id":393725,"date":"2026-01-27T20:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393725\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:16:16","slug":"2026-t20-world-cup-snub-gives-jersey-resolve-to-qualify-in-2028-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393725\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 T20 World Cup: Snub gives Jersey &#8216;resolve&#8217; to qualify in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bangladesh were removed from the event after asking for their games in India to be moved to Sri Lanka, citing safety concerns amid growing tensions between the countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the request was refused, leaving Bangladesh to boycott the event, which begins on 7 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey will begin the qualifying process for the 2028 T20 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have been drawn in Qualifier A of the European sub-regional tournament in Cyprus, with victory in the 10-team event earning a place in the final round of European qualifying in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aside from the chance to play on the world stage, qualifying for the T20 World Cup would also bring an unparalleled level of revenue to the island side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The funding that comes from participating in the World Cup would genuinely be transformational,&#8221; Gomersall said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Not only just for cricket in Jersey, but seeing people from the island on TV would be awesome and inspirational and genuinely create a legacy for everybody on the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That would be a very, very welcome by-product of going to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But right now we just need to make sure that we set ourselves up in the best possible way to get there next time around.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangladesh were removed from the event after asking for their games in India to be moved to Sri&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}