Scotland captain Richie Berrington says his facet can “hold their heads high” after defeat to Australia ended their hopes of reaching the T20 World Cup Tremendous 8s.
Scotland would have superior into the second spherical at England’s expense had they overwhelmed Mitchell Marsh’s workforce in St Lucia on Sunday however misplaced by 5 wickets because the 2021 champions reached their goal of 181 with two balls to spare.
Berrington’s males racked up the best rating by an affiliate nation towards Australia in T20 cricket of 180-5, with the skipper contributing 42 from 31 balls after Brandon McMullen thumped 60 from 34 and George Munsey hit 35 from 23.
Scotland had been knocked out on internet run-rate after ending stage on factors with England, a facet they smashed for 90 runs from 10 overs – Munsey nailing 41 from 31 and opening accomplice Michael Jones 45 from 30 – earlier than that sport was rained off earlier this month.
Berrington mentioned: “The fellows can maintain their heads excessive when it comes to how they’ve performed their cricket all through this match.
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Highlights from Barbados the place Scotland’s George Munsey and Michael Jones impressed towards England earlier than their T20 World Cup conflict was washed out
“It is nice studying for us, nice expertise for the fellows. We’re disenchanted as a result of we had been ready the place we may win.
“[Australia] have great ball strikers all the way through the team and a few big overs in the back end got them back into the game and made it hard to pull back.”
‘Scotland have improved a hell of quite a bit’
On Scotland, Australia captain Marsh mentioned: “They are a really good outfit. They’ve improved a hell of a lot over the last few years. We’ve got a lot of respect for them, they took it down to the wire.
“T20 is a tough format, you might be barely off and lose to anybody – as we virtually noticed immediately. We had been pushed proper to the tip there and a little bit of expertise got here by means of.”
Australia completed high of Group B on eight factors after 4 wins from 4 and can meet India, Afghanistan and considered one of Bangladesh or Netherlands in Tremendous 8s Group 1, with England to tackle West Indies, USA and South Africa in Group 2.
Marsh added: “The World Cup starts again now. We’ve got a lot of trust in our group that we can keep winning games of cricket.”
Australia are aiming to finish an ICC trophy treble at this World Cup as they already maintain the World Check Championship and 50-over World Cup titles, defeating India within the finals of these respective tournaments in 2023.
Australia had been totally examined by Scotland earlier than successful in St Lucia
Marsh’s facet may even go to Scotland in September for 3 T20 internationals, on a tour of the UK which may even embrace three T20s and 5 one-day internationals towards England.
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