{"id":72935,"date":"2025-08-17T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72935\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:04:16","slug":"guernsey-thrash-papua-new-guinea-by-nine-wickets-as-charlie-forshaw-stars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72935\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey thrash Papua New Guinea by nine wickets as Charlie Forshaw stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guernsey registered an impressive nine-wicket win over Papua New Guinea in the first of two 50 over matches at the KGV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teenage bowler Charlie Forshaw starred for the islanders as he took seven wickets for just 16 runs as Guernsey bowled out the Papuans for just 90 in 23.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sarnians cruised to their target in reply as they made 91-1 with more than 26 overs to spare as Josh Butler scored 42 not out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two sides will face each other again on Sunday in the final match of a three-game series as Papua New Guinea prepare for the ICC Challenge League tournament in Jersey next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Papuans won the opening match between the two sides when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c3r4j79l9zxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat Guernsey by six wickets<\/a> in a tight Twenty20 encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey registered an impressive nine-wicket win over Papua New Guinea in the first of two 50 over matches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-72935","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\/72935","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=72935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}