Jersey stun Scotland to stay in hunt for T20 World Cup

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Jersey stunned Scotland with a final-ball, one-wicket victory to put them in contention for a place at the T20 World Cup for the first time.

Needing one run from the last delivery with nine wickets down, Jake Dunford scrambled the required single.

A win for Italy against the Netherlands in the last fixture of the European Qualifier would leave Jersey second in the standings, which would take them to the T20 World Cup in India next year.

A Dutch victory would result in them taking over from the Italians at the top, with second place decided on net run rate.

Scotland miss out on a fifth successive T20 World Cup, having been the highest ranked side at the tournament.

“The next few hours is potentially life defining for some of our guys, but there’s nothing really we can do about it except to enjoy our victory,” Jersey captain Charles Perchard told ICCTV.

“Years of graft and hard work and some real disappointments all led up to this moment and we’re delighted.

“We’ve never beaten a side as good as Scotland before, so there was definitely some nerves in the camp.

“The coaches were trying to tell us to stay level and maybe we did, maybe we didn’t, but we got over the line in the end.”

Ben Greenwood top scored for Jersey with 49 as they set about chasing Scotland’s modest 133-7.

But wickets started to tumble as nerves kicked in, including two frantic run-outs.

Ben Ward got Jersey back on track with thumping six in the penultimate over, only to be denied by a fantastic catch from Brendan McMullen when taking aim for the boundary again.

That left Perchard and Dunford, batters 10 and 11, with five runs to get from the last four balls, which they managed to spark scenes of wild celebrations.



BBC Sport

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