T20 World Cup: We maintain proving to ourselves that we’re succesful, says Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer
T20 World Cup: Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer mentioned that he was happy with how everybody backs one another in his crew after they pulled off a surprising six-run win over the Test-playing Bangladesh. Scotland began their marketing campaign with a surprising win over Bangladesh. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSScotland managed to defend a goal of 141 to begin their T20 World Cup marketing campaign with a winThey rallied from being 53/6 within the twelfth over to ending on 140/9Chris Greaves starred with bat and ball for ScotlandScotland captain Kyle Coetzer hailed the “togetherness” in his crew and mentioned that the fightback staged by their decrease order of their T20 World Cup opener towards Bangladesh exhibits that they will win matches from any place. Scotland began their marketing campaign in Oman with a surprising six-run win over Bangladesh.
Scotland managed to defend a goal of 141. While it could have been a low goal, they did nicely to succeed in 140.9 as they had been 53/6 within the twelfth over. “Credit to the Bangladesh bowlers, they showed high class skills. They did blow us away a bit. But you can’t count any team out in T20s. We had a lot of belief in our batting depth, we do feel we can all hit the ball a long way. (Chris) Greaves and (Mark) Watt showed it.”Greaves and Watt put up a partnership of 51 off 34 balls for the seventh wicket which introduced Scotland again into the sport. Greaves, who scored 45 off 28 balls, went on to take two wickets as nicely.”It (lower order fightback) just shows that we can win a game from any position. We fought back with some great knocks and this is a great confidence builder. We understand that we have to play extremely well to beat sides,” mentioned Coetzer.”We’ll do what we do after winning games, and maybe de-brief at some point tomorrow. Huge togetherness amongst our crowd. That’s one of the most important things that we need when we want to get across the line under pressure. Everyone backs each other. Really proud of the guys. We continually keep proving to ourselves that we’re capable,” he mentioned.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.
