'The rain beat us' - Scotland left frustrated by washout

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Scotland's T20 World Cup washout against England successful Barbados has near them some "confident and frustrated", according to opening batter Michael Jones.

There were signs of what was to travel erstwhile nan commencement was delayed by a passing shower, but Jones and George Munsey started quickly against England's much-vaunted bowling attack.

They took 51 from nan first 6.2 overs, unperturbed by nan gait of Mark Wood and Jofra Archer, earlier they were taken from nan section of play erstwhile more.

When they returned for a shortened 10-over match, Scotland's opening brace added 39 more, but Richie Berrington's broadside were denied nan chance to take sides a revised target of 109 aft nan heavens opened successful Bridgetown.

"The rainfall hit us," Jones said. "We’ve sewage bully bowlers and we’re a bully team, truthful it’s annoying.

"The crippled was much successful our favour if nan crippled was going to beryllium shorter. We felt confident, which is why it’s truthful frustrating. Scotland person been done by nan rainfall a fewer times astatine large tournaments now.

"If you’d asked america earlier nan crippled if we would person taken a point, we mightiness good person taken it, but taking connected England and being successful that position, it’s really frustrating."

The Scots look Namibia connected Thursday, again successful Bridgetown, but Jones says they cannot spend to easiness disconnected against their chap subordinate nation.

"We’ve played Namibia earlier and mislaid - and played them earlier and won," nan Durham man added. "We’ve sewage a occupation to do successful that game. We’ll look to get a triumph connected nan committee and reassess wherever we are aft that."

The consequence leaves Group B wide unfastened and, pinch Oman to travel aft Namibia, Scotland could spell into their last group crippled against Australia knowing a triumph would return them into nan Super 8s.

However, skipper Berrington insists they ever believed they could scope nan adjacent stage.

"We’ve travel into this tourney pinch that mindset from nan start," he said. "I don’t deliberation coming changes that.

"It’s unfortunate we didn’t get chance to spell for nan win, but we cognize we’re going to person to hit immoderate really bully teams if we want to progress.

"We’ll move connected from today, return what we can, but nan adjacent game’s going to beryllium conscionable arsenic important."

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