Scotland captain Richie Berrington says his facet can “maintain their heads excessive” after defeat to Australia ended their hopes of qualifying for the World T20 Tremendous 8s.
Scotland would have progressed to the second spherical at England’s expense in the event that they beat Mitchell Marsh’s facet 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 posted the best rating of the Related Nations towards Australia in T20 cricket 180-5, with the captain hitting 42 off 31 balls after Brandon McMullen hit 60 off 34 and George Munsey 35 off 23.
Closing World T20 Pool B standings as Australia and England qualify for Tremendous 8s
Scotland dropped out of the rankings after being stage on factors with England, a staff they crushed by 90 runs from 10 overs – Muncie hitting 41 from 31 and opening companion Michael Jones 45 from 30 – earlier than that sport was calculated earlier this month.
Berrington stated: “The lads can maintain their heads excessive when it comes to the way in which they’ve performed their cricket all through this match.
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Highlights from Barbados, the place Scots George Muncie and Michael Jones impressed towards England earlier than their World T20 conflict was scrapped
“It is an ideal studying expertise for us, an ideal expertise for the blokes. We’re upset as a result of we had been ready the place we might have received.
“[Australia] the staff has some nice batsmen and a few huge overs on the again introduced them again into the sport and made it troublesome to retreat.’
“Scotland has improved rather a lot”
Relating to Scotland, Australia captain Marsh stated: “They’re a extremely good staff. They’ve improved rather a lot in the previous few years. We have now numerous respect for them, they made it to the tip.
“T20 is a troublesome format, you may battle again a bit and lose to anyone – as we nearly noticed in the present day. We had been pushed to the tip and we received a little bit of expertise.”
Australia high Group B with eight factors after 4 wins from 4 and can face both India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh or the Netherlands in Group 1 of the Tremendous 8s, whereas England face West Indies, USA and South Africa in Group 2.
Marsh added: “The World Cup is on once more. There’s numerous confidence in our group that we will preserve successful video games of cricket.”
Australia are aiming to raise the ICC trophy on this World Cup as they already maintain the Take a look at World Cup and greater than 50 World Cup titles after defeating India within the finals of those respective tournaments in 2023.
Australia had been totally examined by Scotland earlier than their win in St Lucia
Marsh’s facet may also go to Scotland in September for 3 T20 internationals, throughout a tour of Nice Britain that may also embody three T20 matches and 5 one-day internationals towards England.
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