Jersey beat Guernsey twice to retain their inter-island T20 title on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The hosts cruised to two 100-run victories at Grainville to collect their fifth consecutive title in a run stretching back to 2022.<\/p>\n
In the opening game Analise Merritt scored 52 while Erin Duffy hit 21 not out as Jersey made 160-7.<\/p>\n
In reply the hosts bowled their rivals out for just 60 in 17.5 overs – Elise Millington (19) was the only Guernsey batter to make double figures as Jersey skipper Chloe Greechan took 3-6.<\/p>\n
In the second game Aimee Aikenhead hit a high score of 85 off 64 balls while Merritt scored 50 as the pair put on a 133-run second-wicket stand as Jersey went on to make 188-5.<\/p>\n
In reply Guernsey ended their 20 overs on 88-7 as Katie Robert made 18 not out while openers Molly Robinson (17) and Francesca Bulpitt (10) had an opening partnership of 29.<\/p>\n
Medium pacer Olivia Bastin had figures of 3-13 as no other Guernsey batters made it into double figures.<\/p>\n
“It’s a great start to the season with two wins over Guernsey on your home turf in front of friends and family,” Greechan told BBC Radio Jersey.<\/p>\n
“It’s always nice to get the win let alone put out that sort of dominant performance.”<\/p>\n
Ilze van der Westhuizen, Guernsey women’s head coach added: “It was a good game to see where we need to improve, so that’s how we approached the game.<\/p>\n
“We wanted to see what the difference in skill level is, where we can improve ourselves and so that was a good start for us.<\/p>\n
“We are probably about five to eight years behind them if you look at skill and pathway systems, so as soon as we get that gap a little bit smaller in the next three to five years then we’ll be in a much better place to be able to compete competitively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey beat Guernsey twice to retain their inter-island T20 title on Sunday. The hosts cruised to two 100-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639585","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\/639585","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=639585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}