Scotland’s hopes of T20 World Cup upset against England ruined by rain

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England’s T20 World Cup opener in Barbados was abandoned due to rain with Scotland scoring 90-0 off 10 stop-start overs

came between two countries not unfamiliar with the wet stuff. But Scotland could probably feel more aggrieved than England by the end of this Group B match, ­having made the bulk of the running in between the downpours that eventually scuppered proceedings.

Had the teams got back on, Jos ­Buttler’s men would have needed 109 from 10 overs to win; a chal­lenging but not impossible target given their array of power-hitters. “I thought we were a bit sloppy in the field, with a bit of nerves at the start of the tournament,” their head coach, Matthew Mott, said before insisting that, with 10 wickets in hand, the ball increasingly slippery in the wet, they would still have fancied the chase.

 

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