India, July 17 -- Jersey is an island in the English Channel and has its own cricket team. In the ICC T20I rankings, they are placed 29th at present. They narrowly missed out on a 2026 T20 World Cup berth earlier this year in India and Sri Lanka, but such is their story in front of which their not qualifying kind of pales in comparison.

The man behind the rise in Jersey's status on the cricket field is Jimmy Perchard, who, through extraordinary efforts, turned his garden into an international cricket field where many teams have come and played. Jersey is a self-governing British Crown Dependency but it's closer to France (approximately 22.5km west of the Normandy coast). Right from a young age, Jimmy was a cricket enthusiast and loved pl...