{"id":601343,"date":"2026-05-24T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601343\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:43:13","slug":"jersey-can-make-t20-world-cup-says-captain-charles-perchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601343\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey can make T20 World Cup, says captain Charles Perchard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jersey were just a few balls away from making the 2026 T20 World Cup after finishing thrid in the final stage of European qualifying last summer.<\/p>\n

Having narrowly lost to hosts the Netherlands, they went on to register a famous win over Scotland<\/a> as well as beating Guernsey.<\/p>\n

But a washed-out game with Italy meant the Italians progressed on net run rate to their first-ever World Cup appearances.<\/p>\n

It comes as Jersey also have an eye on progressing in the 50-over format of the game.<\/p>\n

They are top of ICC Challenge League A ahead of a final five-game tournament later this year.<\/p>\n

Should they keep their place in the top two, they will make the World Cup qualifier play-off, with a good finish in that event earning One-Day International status. <\/p>\n

“This is just the start of our World Cup journey,” Perchard added.<\/p>\n

“We needed to qualify for this. It would have been a real banana skin if we hadn’t, but the focus is on some great things for us as a cricket team.<\/p>\n

“We spoke just before about our next training block as we sort of build up to a massive end of the year in October and December.<\/p>\n

“We’re obviously an amateur side, but if we want to get to a level where we’re playing semi-professionally, or professionally in some cases, strength and conditioning work is going to be a massive part of our programme over the next few months.<\/p>\n

“So we’re looking forward to really testing ourselves with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey were just a few balls away from making the 2026 T20 World Cup after finishing thrid in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601343","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\/601343","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=601343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}