{"id":594315,"date":"2026-05-20T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594315\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:52:09","slug":"guernsey-reach-final-of-2028-t20-world-cup-qualifiers-after-slovenia-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594315\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey reach final of 2028 T20 World Cup qualifiers after Slovenia win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Josh Butler returned his best bowling figures in a Guernsey shirt with 3-16 off his four overs as Slovenia were bowled out for just 99 off 19.4 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He took three of the first four wickets &#8211; including opener Taher Mohammad for 20 &#8211; as Slovenia were reduced to 40-4 off 9.2 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Kovacic offered some big-hitting lower-order resistance as he smashed three sixes in a 16-ball knock of 25. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he was caught off teenage pace bowler Ed Robinson, who continued to impress with 2-9 off his only over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In reply Guernsey made heavy weather of their relatively low target &#8211; they were 21-2 off three overs as Butler and Tom Nightingale went cheaply. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lucas Barker (22) and Matt Stokes (16) put on 32 for the third wicket but were dismissed in successive balls to leave the islanders on 53-4 early in the eighth over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It almost got worse for Guernsey when skipper Ollie Nightingale was dropped on four with the score at 60-4, but a few balls later they lost another wicket as Zak Damarell was caught and bowled by Dileep Pallekonda for four to leave Guernsey on 62-5 off 8.1 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Nightingale went on to make 18 and Martin Dale Bradley 23 not out as Guernsey reached 103-6 off 14.1 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Butler returned his best bowling figures in a Guernsey shirt with 3-16 off his four overs as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594315","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\/594315","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=594315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}