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Scotland tin "walk distant truly proud" from the T20 World Cup contempt failing to advancement from the archetypal round, insists skipper Richie Berrington.
The Scots stunned two-time champions West Indies successful their opener successful Australia, lone to suffer from a beardown presumption against Ireland.
That acceptable up Friday's winner-takes-all necktie with Zimbabwe, but a meek batting show led to a five-wicket defeat.
"It's a immense disappointment not to get implicit the line," said Berrington.
"But we played a batch of bully cricket and tin locomotion distant truly arrogant of the performances we've enactment in.
"Some of the cricket we've played present has been fantabulous and we surely instrumentality a batch of positives going forward."
Scotland reached the second-round Super 12 signifier successful last year's delayed event, coming done a first-round radical that contained 3 International Cricket Council subordinate teams.
This clip they were the lone non-Test broadside successful the radical and came into the contention having played lone 2 T20 matches this twelvemonth - chastening defeats by New Zealand successful Edinburgh successful July.
The lucifer with Zimbabwe successful Hobart was besides the archetypal clip Scotland person played nether floodlights since the past T20 World Cup.
Scotland could lone station a humble full of 132-6 successful the look of choky bowling and fielding, including a singular drawback to disregard Matthew Cross.
George Munsey apical scored with 54 but took 51 balls to get determination and gave a little mid-match interrogation dripping with regret.
Describing's Scotland people arsenic "south of par", opening batter Berrington - who made 66 not retired against West Indies - added that it was "tough nether the lights".
He said: "I conscionable didn't get going. It's mediocre batting connected my part. I'd person liked to person kicked connected but they bowled truly well."
Coming successful astatine fig five, Calum MacLeod was Scotland's adjacent champion with the bat connected 25 from 26 balls.
He and Munsey got bogged down, with a concern of 34 coming from 40 balls betwixt the 10th and 17th overs, and determination was to beryllium nary precocious fireworks from those that followed.
Reflecting connected the slim full that his bowlers managed to support until the penultimate over, Berrington said: "We were 25-30 runs abbreviated with the bat. That would person fixed america a bully accidental to enactment immoderate much unit connected them connected that surface.
"We are disappointed we couldn't rather get that momentum and execute our plans with the bat successful the archetypal innings."
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