{"id":595528,"date":"2026-05-21T03:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595528\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:55:13","slug":"record-breaking-jersey-make-2028-t20-world-cup-qualifier-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595528\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking Jersey make 2028 T20 World Cup Qualifier final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With nothing to lose, Croatia&#8217;s reply started superbly as openers Sam Houghton and Connor Carroll smashed a 57-run partnership off 3.4 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Houghton was caught and bowled by Julius Sumerauer for 22 off 12 balls as the pair hit 28 off Dominic Blampied in the second over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Big-hitting Carroll &#8211; who had conceded 63 runs off his four overs with the ball without taking a wicket &#8211; seemed determined to make up for it with the bat as he reached his half-century in 16 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He helped the Croats reach 87-2 at the end of the sixth over as his side kept in touch with the run rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey thought they had taken his wicket midway through the eighth over but skipper Charles Perchard dropped a simple catch with Carroll on 69 from 27 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he was caught in the next over as Jenner held on at the boundary off a George Richardson delivery, Carroll departing having made 74 off 31 balls including nine sixes to leave Croatia on 116-3 after 10 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Carroll back in the pavilion, Croatia\u2019s run chase slowed &#8211; Rashid Hashmi was caught for 20 and Jared Newton for 23 as they slipped to 154-5 with five overs to go.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zak Tribe helped mop up the lower order with figures of 3-13 as Croatia were bowled out for 171 with an over to spare. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With nothing to lose, Croatia&#8217;s reply started superbly as openers Sam Houghton and Connor Carroll smashed a 57-run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595528","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\/595528","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=595528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}