Time to back sport tourism
IT WAS written in the stars, but not without a few wobbles on the way.
Guernsey have moved through their winner-takes-all ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Sub Regional Europe Qualifier to get back on level terms with Jersey and nations like the Netherlands and Scotland on a potential journey to the next T20 World Cup.
We can all heave a sigh of relief.
Good times for Guernsey cricket, a sport which needs a few of them.
From being ‘the summer game’ in the island it has shrunk alarmingly and while the best have arguably got better, the pyramid is so much narrower.
Meanwhile at the highest level, Jersey have run away from us too.
However one thing Guernsey cricket has remained good at is putting on a good international tournament, and it proved it again, despite the iffy weather, with good hospitality, travel and facilities and pitch conditions.
The Guernsey sporting public has also once again backed the Greens – the scenes at Wednesday afternoon’s final reminiscent of the Island Games once again.
We’ll say it again. Are there many better places to put on a good event, whatever your sport?
And do our authorities realise it, invest in it, act on it? Let’s take a ‘gamble’ and back more sports tourism in 2025.