England managed to qualify for the Super 8 after Scotland missed a chance against Australia today. Although the performance was good enough in today's match and they collected runs well, but unfortunately they did not qualify. Although the Scotland team had a good start and put a lot of pressure on Australia at first, but later on the lead in the last period, the Australian team was much more excited. Australia batted brilliantly to meet the target of 180 runs and won by 5 wickets with 186 runs. Scotland team lost in this match and couldn't go to Super 8, they had to leave and the dream was broken.
However the qualifying teams in Super8 Group 2 are Australia, England, USA, West Indies, they qualified due to their great performances.
Nice, after doing bad performances in this World Cup, by chance England stepped up instead of stepping down and made their place into the top 2 teams in their group and now they will qualify into the Super 8s with Australia.
From B group, we have two super 8s teams and those are England and Australia. I think there was no chance for them to qualify and Scotland deserves to come in because as they have done too much effort in this World Cup but at the end, they would not qualify then it seems like a disappointment for them. Scotland and England both teams points were same but it was not in luck for Scotland.
This time I think at the start of this World Cup, we underestimated the small teams and this time many teams were out of the tournament those must have to come in as there is the biggest example of Pakistan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
Also, there was England too near the verge of elimination but by chance, they still managed to qualify for the Super 8s as we have seen. Don’t know what type of problem with teams that came here, they cannot play well and lose the matches very close, and they must have to win this but sadly this World Cup is very unique. I think giving a chance to play with 20 teams in this World Cup format became tough for them.
Going to the Super 8s and without New Zealand and Pakistan, it will feel like a vacuum but anyways that is how it is.