Jersey v Guernsey
Inter Insular 50 overs #70
Brooks Macdonald Trophy
on Saturday 7th September 2024
at Grainville, Jersey at 11am
Toss won by Jersey who elected to bowl
Umpires: Heath Kearns (J) Mark Savage (G)
Scorers: Gina Kearns (J) Bob O’Brien (G)
Match reduced to 42 overs due to rain delay
Jersey won by 2 wickets
Player of the match Harrison Carlyon

Guernsey innings  RunsBalls4s6sSR Jersey BowlingOvMdnDotRunWktEcon 
Josh Butlerc Carlyonb Simpson3150020Sumerauer91353413.78(1 w)
Ben Fitchetb Sumerauer20243083.33Simpson70273114.43(6 w)
Luke Bichardc&b Perchard7241029.17Perchard90274545(1 w)
Matt Stokesc Subb Perchard85958089.47Britton60173415.67
Tom Nightingalec Tribeb Britton9161056.25Carlyon40122305.75(3 w)
Ollie Nightingale*c Tribeb Perchard49654075.38Lawrenson50152404.8(1 w)
Zak Damarell+c Lawrensonb Perchard151220125Tribe2051005
Ben Ferbrachenot out1100100
Charlie Forshawdnb
Adam Marteldnb
Dane Mullendnb
Extras(b 0 lb 3 w 12 nb 0 )15
Total(for 7 wkts in 42.0 overs)204
FoW1-21(J Butler 5.4 ov), 2 -25 (B Fitchet 6.5 ov), 3-43 (L Bichard 12.6 ov), 4-75 (T Nightingale 19.2 ov), 5-178 (O Nightingale 38.1 ov), 6-201 (Z Damarell 41.3 ov), 7-204(M Stokes 41.6 ov)

Jersey innings  RunsBalls4s6sSR Guernsey BowlingOvMdnDotRunWktEcon 
Stanley Normanb Bichard58684185.29Bichard90333624(1 w)
Harrison Carlyonc Butlerb Mullen731007073Stokes7.50243204.09
Josh Lawrensonc Damarellb Mullen3100030Forshaw90234825.33
Zak Tribeb Forshaw18260069.23Martel80263514.38(3 w)
Patrick Gougeb Martel171220141.67Mullen80195036.25
Charlie Brennannot out13150086.67
Jake Dunford+c&b Forshaw03000
Julius Sumerauerb Bichard780087.5
Charles Perchard*c Nightingaleb Mullen360050
Scott Simpsonnot out5310166.67
Toby Brittondnb
Extras(b 4 lb 2 w 4 nb 0 )10
Total(for 8 wkts in 41.5 overs )207
FoW1-115 (S Norman 24.5 ov), 2-120 (J Lawrenson 27.2 ov), 3-143 (H Carlyon 31.6 ov), 4-171 (P Gouge 35.5 ov), 5-180 (Z Tribe 36.3 ov), 6-180 (J Dunford 36.6 ov), 7-193 (Sumerauer 39.2 ov), 8-200 (C Perchard 40.6 ov)

‘Uncapped trio in squad’ by Gareth Le Prevost Guernsey Press

Three teenagers are the uncapped members of the Guernsey men’s squad who will look to end an already memorable season on a high. Young pace bowlers Charlie Forshaw and Harry Johnson, who both played integral roles in last week’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Sub-Regional Europe Qualifier success, have been joined in the group by Guernsey under-15 captain Ed Robinson and while the all-rounder is unlikely to make the final XI on this occasion, the management team are acknowledging his exciting potential by including him in the 13.

‘We know he is someone who will make a lot of progress, he has already made his mark in CI League cricket and he has played for Hampshire U15s, so giving him the opportunity to be around the senior squad is another rung up the ladder for him,’ said Guernsey’s director of cricket Jeremy Frith.
From the squad for the recent ICC tournament, Martin-Dale Bradley is unavailable and Ollie Clapham drops out and while the focus switches from the shorter format back to 50 overs for the annual clash with Jersey, the Sarnians will not change their mentality.
‘You’ve just got to try to do your best whether you are playing Malta, Estonia, Finland, Denmark or Jersey,’ said Frith. ‘Any coach will tell you that you can’t do better than your best and, whatever format of game, we will look to keep improving on the simple things like fielding and running between the wickets, while also being positive in our approach when batting and bowling, and just keep backing each other. ‘Because it’s a longer format, it is down to the batters and the bowlers how to manage the risk, but in a 50-over game you have a bit of time to think, thankfully.’
Frith and the rest of the management team will also take their time to assess the conditions beforehand before settling on the final composition of the side and how the batting order lines up, but he added that he will only look at his own squad rather than worry about the opposition, who have not lost a 50-over inter-insular since 2015. ‘We know they will be a decent side who do the basics very well and will always be competitive – it’s our job to match them or go above them on the day,’ he said of Jersey. ‘Our guys know they are getting better, making progress all the time, and that will take us to a point where we are competitive with Jersey whenever we play them, get us on a level with them and hopefully, eventually, past them in time. ‘We have got the better of them once this season [in the last game of the three match T20I series] and hopefully we can make that twice this weekend. ‘Every bit of confidence and belief you can get from such wins is very valuable and for the last 18 months to two years we have been on an upward trajectory. There have been a few bumps along the way, but the main message is we want to keep improving and getting better.’

Guernsey squad:
Ollie Nightingale, Luke Bichard, Josh Butler, Zak Damarell, Ben Ferbrache, Ben Fitchet, Charlie Forshaw, Harry Johnson, Adam Martel, Dame Mullen, Tom Nightingale, Ed Robinson, Matt Stokes.

‘Guernsey fall just short in a ‘traditional’ inter insular’ by Gareth Le Prevost Guernsey Press

An inter insular victory would have been the icing on the cake but Guernsey will loom back on 2024 with a great deal of pride for what they have achieved despite their narrow defeat to Jersey on Saturday.
‘I’m satisfied looking at it in the way that coaches always have slightly loftier expectations than perhaps we should,’ said director of cricket Jeremy Frith with a wry grin. If you had offered me what we have done this season at the start of the year I would have happily taken it.’

Jersey v Guernsey gets under way at Grainville Dave Ferguson JEP


They were so close to adding the Inter-Insular Cup to the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Sub Regional European Qualifier trophy too. On a day when a delay to their journey across the water caused the match to be reduced to 45-overs per side and the threat of rain was never far away, whoever won the toss was always going to bowl first and the coin fell the way of Jersey captain Chuggy Perchard.
Julius Sumerauer and debutant Scott Simpson used those conditions to their advantage although Ben Fitchet did manage to pierce the field and reach the boundary on three occasions before the first wicket fell when Josh Butler nicked the left-armer to first slip. Fitchet fell in the next over as Sumerauer rearranged his stumps, which brought Matt Stokes to the crease and once again he was to be the main contributor to the Guernsey total. He and Luke Bichard , who had been promoted to number three, had to deal with a short break for rain as they looked to dig in, but Bichard became the first of four wickets for Perchard after the game had resumed with the overs now down to 42 per side.
Left-arm spinner Toby Bitton accounted for Tom Nightingale, also for single figures, before Stokes found a willing ally in Guernsey skipper Ollie Nightingale and the fifth-wicket pair put on 103 valuable runs. ‘Stokesy played really nicely, he paced his innings really well and he got a lot of support from Ollie, who played really sensibly and took the right options at the right times,’ Frith said. The captain fell just one short of a half-century to his opposite number and Zak Damarell added a quick 15 while Stokes was out to the final ball of the innings for a quality 85 from 96 balls, including eight fours.
Jersey took control of the match at the start of the run chase though, with debutant Stan Norman and player-of-the-match Harrison Carlyon both completing half-centuries in a stand of 115. However, when Bichard removed Norman for 58, which included four fours and a six, the visitors started to get a foothold in the match and Josh Lawrenson did not last long as Damarell took a fine catch standing up to the stumps off Dane Mullen. The Griffins seamer then took the big wicket of Carlyon for 73 with Butler clinging onto a fine catch at long-on. It then became a nip and tuck game as momentum swung one way then the other.
Middle order batters Zak Tribe and Patrick Gouge both chipped in with runs but Adam Martel dismissed the former before Charlie Forshaw removed the latter and then Jake Dunford in the same over to leave Jersey 180 for 6 with basically a run-a-ball needed. Sumerauer and Perchard both came and went in the last five overs, but 18-year old left hander Charlie Brennan stood firm and in OVs teammate Simpson he found a willing partner for Stokes’ last over.
Three singles came from the first three balls leaving two needed. A dot ball followed before Simpson whipped one off his pads through the infield and to the boundary to seal a dramatic victory with one ball to spare. ‘The performance was good in a lot of ways but obviously we’re disappointed not to win,’ Frith said. ‘We played well for the most part, just a few little things did not go our way. We did not have the best of the conditions but that’s not an excuse. I thought we did very well to put a score on the board – we felt 180-200 would be decent, so we got on the right end of that. We were just never really able to exert enough pressure with the ball to break the back of it – they went off well and the run-rate never really changed. If we got the required rate up to sixes, it would have been difficult for them. It was quite a traditional game of one-day cricket. We got closer and closer but we never got to the point where we were favourites.’

Great Scott! Simpson seals victory at the death by Elliot Corbel Jersey Post

Jersey’s Scott Simpson, making his 50 over debut, secured the big early wicket of Guernsey’s Josh Butler and scored the winning runs with the bat to see his side over the line

WHOever said the game of cricket was boring? Picture the scene. Grainville, the home of Jersey Cricket, Saturday. Grey, murky clouds over head, the ball nipping around, Jersey chasing a tricky total and it has boiled down to the final over of the match. Bowlers have run in and given their all, batsmen have chipped away, some with scores, some missing out. Days like these need a hero – and sometimes it is not the person you would expect. With fear of the weather gods throughout the morning of the Men’s 50-Over cricket Inter-Insular, Jersey captain Chuggy Perchard saw the coin toss fall his way and with little hesitation, decided to send Guernsey into bat.
The Sarnians had had a frustrating morning of delayed travel, which is never easy in these fixtures. Anyone with an iota of cricketing nuance would have looked at conditions and come to the same conclusion as the Jersey skipper. Still, someone has to bat first and Guernsey openers Josh Butler and Ben Fitchet strode out to an excellent crowd at Grainville to face the music.
Facing fast bowling is intimidating, no two ways about it. It takes a top player to have the bravery and skill to even survive, let alone thrive against pace bowling. Having the returning Julius Sumerauer in the Jersey line up is a massive bonus at any time for Perchard, especially when he is bowling like the wind at the moment. Partnered with Scott Simpson, making his 50-over Inter-Insular bow, the pair had the ball on a string early and used the conditions to their advantage. Fitchet was the more aggressive of the two openers, striking three early, if not slightly streaky, boundaries. It took until the sixth over for the home side to get the first breakthrough, and it was the debutant to provide it. Simpson, pushing the ball across Butler, forced a poor shot off the back foot, catching the outside edge of his blade and swallowed gratefully by Harrison Carlyon at first slip. Just one over later, it was 25-2 when Sumerauer’s searing yorker demolished Fitchet’s stumps. Both openers were now back in the hutch and a rebuild was required by new pair Luke Bichard ad Matthew Stokes. The duo looked to dig in and re-build, dealing with a short break for rain in the meantime.
The score had rolled along to 43 with skipper Perchard now bowling in tandem with the talented left-arm spinner Toby Britton and keeping Guernsey under control. Bichard, too, found himself walking back for just seven, Perchard’s clever variations proving challenging on this surface and forcing a chipped catch back to him in his follow through. The hard-hitting Tom Nightingale was next in, but he too could not stick around long enough to support Stokes, as he was dismissed by Britton for nine. You could almost feel Guernsey captain Ollie Nightingale’s thoughts as he walked out to bat at 75-4; “Right, I’ll do it myself then.” In serious need of a re-build, Nightingale and Stokes batted beautifully for the best part of 20 overs, notching an excellent partnership of 103 to steer their side back on track. Nightingale would fall in frustrating manner, chipping an easy catch to Zak Tribe off Perchard again to fall just one run short of his half-century.
With the innings reduced to 42 overs aside after the rain break, Guernsey managed a further 26 runs from the final four overs, the superb Matthew Stokes falling off the final ball of the innings from Perchard for an innings saving 85 off 95 balls, including eight boundaries. Wickets were shared around for the reigning champions, with one each for Sumerauer, Simpson, Britton and brilliant figures of 4-45 from Perchard. The Sarnians may have felt they had done a decent job halfway through, as conditions continued to look gloomy and knowing they had a brand new ball to try do some early damage with. One could have been fooled for thinking, though, that groundsman Peter Gough had changed the wicket at the innings break. On the resumption, Jersey openers Harrison Carlyon and another debutant, Stan Norman, made their way to the crease and proceeded to make light work of the Guernsey attack.
When chasing any score, the opening partnership is always crucial for the rest of the team’s confidence. Carlyon and Norman were outstanding, notching up a 115-run opening partnership in just 25 overs. Norman was the slightly faster scoring of the two, bringing up a maiden half-century in Jersey senior colours off just 54 balls. Carlyon would reach his 50 also, his coming off 69 deliveries. The Sarnians looked to have no answers as the game rapidly slipped away from them. However, as is so often the case in this beautiful game, momentum can be a funny thing.
Norman was the first man to go, cleaned up by Bichard for an excellent debut innings of 58 from 68 balls, with four boundaries and a six to his name. What’s the old phrase? “One brings two here, boys!” Just three overs later, all of a sudden Guernsey were back in the game, Josh Lawrenson the second man dismissed caught behind superbly by Zak Damarell standing up to the medium pace of Dane Mullen. Jersey fans knew, however, that while Carlyon was still there, the game was under their control. However, Carlyon opted to take on Mullen and tried to clear the man on the long-on boundary, falling short and producing a fine catch diving forward from Josh Butler to throw the game wide open as he strode back for a man of the match worthy 73.
Zak Tribe was joined by domestic run-machine this season, Patrick Gouge, who looked full of beans as he started his innings, racing to 17 off just 12 deliveries before he too was bowled, this time by spinner Adam Martel. Tribe too was dismissed shortly after for 18, impressive young seamer Charlie Forshaw sneaking one through his defences. With the score now 180-5 and still requiring 25 runs to win from just six overs, Jersey fans were just starting to feel uncomfortable in their seats. This turned into definite nerves just three balls later when Jersey wicketkeeper Jake Dunford was caught and bowled by Forshaw again for a duck, throwing the game wide open. Sumerauer is no mug with the bat, and he and Charlie Brennan looked to nudge the ball around and take as many off the target as possible.
But when the tall paceman was dismissed for just seven in the 40th over, followed shortly after by skipper Perchard for just three, fingernails were definitely being bitten in the crowd. Last over of the match, five runs to win, out strides Simpson to meet his Old Victorians teammate in the middle. It was quite a moment. Brennan, still just 18 years of age, feels like he’s been playing for Jersey his whole life, while the 32 year old debutant Simpson would have been hoping his teenage partner did the job for him. Stokes had the ball in hand and all watching held their breath. A single, good, one run closer, Simo can bat, we’re all good. Another single, this is easy! Guernsey have their field spread and Brennan is back on strike, we’ll walk this. Another single, okay nice, just two to win now, we surely have this in the bag?
Queue the change in field, several boundary riders coming in to try save the single and force the big shot from Simpson. A dot ball… okay, we still have time, well bowled Stokesy.
As the crowd held it’s breath, the winning moment came in a blaze of emotion. Stokes hurled one down on Simpson’s pads and the newly dubbed all-rounder whipped the ball away, scorching the turf as it raced to the boundary and the man himself jumped and punched the air in delight. Jersey had won by the skin of their teeth, after almost snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

“WELL that got a bit exciting at the end, didn’t it?” Guernsey Post
Those were the slightly tongue-in-cheek words of Jersey Men’s cricket captain Chuggy Perchard after his side secured their eighth successive 50-over Inter-Insular crown over Guernsey at Grainville. Missing key first-team players and contending with challenging weather conditions throughout, Perchard and his troops secured a two-wicket victory over their Sarnian rivals, with just a ball to spare. Harrison Carlyon was named man of the match for his excellent 73 with the bat, combining brilliantly with debutant Stan Norman (58) for an opening partnership of 115, chasing 205 for victory. Perchard himself was also in fine form, picking up four wickets for just 45 runs in his nine-over spell. “We’re absolutely delighted with the win,” Perchard continued. “We have had a stranglehold on this trophy for a good time now, but we never take Guernsey for granted. “They’re an excellent side who came into this game off the back of a very successful summer for them, so we knew the challenge they were going to put up would be a stern one.
“I thought we were really solid with the ball, but I think there was some room for improvement in the field. “We felt confident at the innings break and for Harrison [Carlyon] and Stan [Norman] to play so well opening the innings was fantastic. “Stan getting to a well-deserved 50 was amazing, he was extremely impressive, as were all of our debutants today. “Scott Simpson as well, with both bat and ball, he took a massive wicket up top early to get us going and to come in at the end with all that pressure and hit the winning runs is a great moment for him and we’re all chuffed for him.” Perchard was missing several players for this clash, with the likes of Asa Tribe, Dan Birrell and Jonty Jenner all unavailable. However, interim head coach Paul Hutchison was particularly impressed with the level of quality on display.
“I’m extremely proud of the boys today,” said ‘Hutch’. “Yes, we were missing some key men, particularly in the middle order, but the boys who came in really stepped up. With some massive tournaments coming up for us, it’s great as a coach to know we have such quality strength in depth if required. “We are building a really solid squad now and I’m excited to move ahead to Kenya now and see what more this group can achieve.” Opening batsman Carlyon, who was named man of the match for his innings of 73. He said: “This is a very satisfying win for us, we were made to work hard for it. “The wicket was a bit sticky and with the cloud cover, it was always going to be a fiddly chase. “Stan batted brilliantly on debut and for us to take such a deficit out early was massive. “I was annoyed to get out when I did, but the rest of the boys got the job done and we’ll celebrate this one well.” Debutants Norman and Simpson also spoke of their first Inter-Insular experiences, with the young Norman saying: “It’s an amazing feeling.
“I’ve come through all the age group teams from U11s all the way through, so to get my first senior call up and to contribute is such a big confidence boost.” Simpson, who has made a dazzling start to life in the international area in both T20 and now 50-over cricket, also added: “The lads were superb. “Guernsey made us work really hard for it so fair play to them, but to get over the line was very satisfying. “Making my 50-over debut at the young age of 32 probably doesn’t happen very often, but to get to hit the winning runs is a memory I’ll always cherish.”
Guernsey’s head coach, Jeremy Frith, also added how proud he was of his side both in this match and across their extremely successful summer. “It was an excellent game today and it’s a shame to have come out on the losing side in the end. “Jersey are a really good side and coming to play away is always challenging.”