{"id":68946,"date":"2025-08-15T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68946\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:25:08","slug":"guernsey-lose-t20-game-to-papua-new-guinea-by-six-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68946\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey lose T20 game to Papua New Guinea by six wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guernsey lost openers Josh Butler (13) and Lucas Barker (1) cheaply as they reached 20-2 off four overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But they rallied well as Nightingale and his brother Ollie put on 49 for the third wicket before the latter was run out for 8 to leave Guernsey 69-3 off 11 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Nightingale and Damarell had an excellent fourth-wicket stand of 73 before Nightingale was caught for 75 off 51 balls after hitting nine fours and two sixes to leave Guernsey on 142-4 off 17.5 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Damarell was dismissed for a 27-ball 45 an over later as the Sarnians reached 165-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forshaw bowled Papuan opener Peter Karoho (7) midway through the fourth over to leave the visitors on 22-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But fellow opener Sese Bau and Boio Ray put on what proved to be a match-defining second-wicket stand of 99 before Josh Butler bowled Ray for 46 to leave Papua New Guinea on 121-2 off 14 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bau went on to make 85 off 52 balls, including 13 fours and two sixes, before being caught by Damarell off Forshaw&#8217;s first ball of the 19th over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forshaw then trapped his replacement Kipling Doriga lbw with the very next ball to leave  the visitors on 159-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Papua New Guinea were able to see the game out to clinch the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey lost openers Josh Butler (13) and Lucas Barker (1) cheaply as they reached 20-2 off four overs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-68946","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\/68946","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=68946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}