{"id":589000,"date":"2026-05-17T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:15:08","slug":"guernsey-beat-malta-by-six-wickets-in-t20-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589000\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey beat Malta by six wickets in T20 World Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having won the toss, Guernsey put Malta into bat and their bowlers showed little mercy to their opponents as they bowled them out for just 74 in 18.2 overs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin Dale Bradley returned excellent figures of 4-9 while Adam Martel and Ed Robinson took two wickets each. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maltese captain Mehboob Ali was one of only two players from his side to reach double figures as the opener hit 25 from 26 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muhammad Ajmal scored 17 not out as Malta struggled to cope with the Guernsey attack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in reply Guernsey got off to a shaky start as they lost opener Josh Butler for a duck and Tom Nightingale for 4 to leave them on 13-2 in the third over. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Lucas Barker and Matt Stokes steadied the innings with a 25-run third wicket stand before Barker was caught for 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stokes, who hit a game-high 51 against Sweden, continued his good form with 24 not out as he and skipper Ollie Nightingale (28) guided Guernsey home with a 32-run partnership as the islanders reached 78-4 off 11.2 overs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having won the toss, Guernsey put Malta into bat and their bowlers showed little mercy to their opponents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589000","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\/589000","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=589000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}