{"id":412248,"date":"2026-02-07T03:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412248\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T03:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:06:09","slug":"guernsey-hopes-to-build-indoor-cricket-centre-on-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412248\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey hopes to build indoor cricket centre on the island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guernsey are hoping to follow a lead set by Channel Island rivals Jersey, who only missed out on qualifying for this year’s T20 World Cup on net run rate. <\/p>\n

Jersey are ranked 28th in T20 cricket by the ICC and have reached the final round of qualifying for the last five T20 World Cups.<\/p>\n

The two islands have been drawn in the same Sub-Regional Qualifier for the 2028 T20 World Cup in May,<\/a> with the winning side from the 10-team event progressing to the European finals. <\/p>\n

The recent success for Jersey has had a positive impact on Guernsey, according to senior men’s national team head coach Jeremy Frith.<\/p>\n

“Jersey have done us a massive favour because I think when we went into the ICC and the World Cup, the idea of going to a World Cup was very much a dream, it was a bit unrealistic,” he told BBC Radio Guernsey.<\/p>\n

“So for Jersey to be six, seven, eight balls away just on net run rate from actually going to a World Cup has laid down a really good gauntlet to us.<\/p>\n

“That is an achievable dream, particularly with an expanding game as more teams come into global tournaments.<\/p>\n

“So for Guernsey cricket it is a thing that we can aim at. It’s not something that’s going to happen overnight, it needs a lot of work.<\/p>\n

“We definitely, like almost every other sport, need the corporate investment, the government support and everything else if we’re going to do that.<\/p>\n

“But Guernsey at a World Cup, at under-19s, at women’s, girls, whatever, that’s an achievable aim, but it takes a lot of hard work.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey are hoping to follow a lead set by Channel Island rivals Jersey, who only missed out on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-412248","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\/412248","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=412248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}