Rain Stops Play: England vs Scotland Cricket Match Abandoned, ICC T20 WC 2024

Cricket fans all over the world were left disappointed as the thrilling match of England vs Scotland was abandoned due to heavy rain, at Kensington Oval Bridgetown, Barbados. Both teams were disappointed.

England vs Scotland Match Info

Venue	Kensington Oval Bridgetown, Barbados
Date	4^th June, Tuesday, 2024
Toss	Scotland won the toss and decided to bat first
Match No.	6, Group-B

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England vs Scotland key moments

After winning the toss Scotland decided to bowl first as they desperately wanted to win this match against their past rivals. Both the openers from Scotland George Munsey and Michael Jones gave a fiery start against England’s strong bowling line-up.

With the game reduced to 10 overs a side after the halted rain, both teams played for two hours. Scotland was on top as they set a target of 90 runs for England. George 41(31) and Michael 45(30) put together 51 runs after 6.2 overs, unfortunately, that rain came again and the Officials had to stop the play. England missed the chance for a thrilling showcase of power-hitting.

Disappointment for both teams. Let’s have a look at the England vs Scotland head-to-head record was expected to be changed as these teams never played in the ICC T20 World Cup. Apart from this England remains winless against Europe.

Vs	Result
Netherlands	Lost, in 2009
Ireland	No result, in 2010
Netherlands	Lost, in 2014
Ireland	Lost, in 2022
Scotland	No result, in 2024

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England vs Scotland: despite rain, Scotland hammered England

It was a sloppy start for England with the ball and missed fields which hampered their performance. In the fifth over Munsey went for a maximum and Buttlergot the wicket, but it called no ball with Wood overstepping.

England’s errors and tricky pitch allowed Scotland to reach 90 after 10 overs. At the end of the powerplay, Munsey hit a huge six and broke a solar panel adding two fours also coming on Jordan’s over, 24 runs.

England vs Scotland: Jos Buttler was confident for the win

After the post-match Jos said ” We were confident coming into the game. Obviously, they presented a tough challenge, there are no easy games but we were confident.

“It is a disappointment for everyone – both sides and the crowd. I think there were a couple of balls here and there that we needed to tighten up on but all in all with the conditions and the stops and starts and the constraints when we went back out, I thought we scrapped hard and we were confident of chasing that score down.”

“The reaction was good to that, we kept going. We just wanted to get it underway and have a full game but this is the situation we find ourselves in. Hopefully a dry day for the next one and we can get into the tournament.”

Scotland denied the chance of a shock victory over the defending champions

On that Michael Jones said, “Possibly if you’d asked us before the game ‘do you want a point?’ we might have taken it, but to take on England and be in that position, knowing we had a really good chance of winning, is really frustrating.”

“Scotland have been done by the rain a few times now at big tournaments. Matthew Mott thinks they were confident, we think we were confident, so it probably would have been a really good game for the spectators. We felt we were in a strong position, that’s why it’s so frustrating we didn’t get to finish.”

“On the prospect of England facing a reduced five-over thrash, before the game was abandoned, Jones added: “The game was more in our favor if it was shorter. We would have been in a strong position. We do what we’re told. In hindsight, it would have been nice to get a game in any way but those are the cards that were dealt.”