Star Sri Lanka all-rounder Angelo Mathews conceded Saturday that “we’ve let the whole country down” as the previous heroes experienced a first-round exit at the T20 World Cup.
Star Sri Lanka all-rounder Angelo Mathews conceded Saturday that “we’ve let the whole country down” as the previous heroes experienced a first-round exit at the T20 World Cup. Sri Lanka, the bosses in 2014, played their last Gathering D game on Sunday against the Netherlands in the wake of losing to Bangladesh and South Africa. Their main point came from a cleaned-out no-result against Nepal. “I consider first all we’ve let the whole country down and we are truly sorry because we’ve likewise let ourselves down,” said previous captain Mathews.
“We never anticipated this. We ran over a ton of difficulties yet those are not something to kind of stress over, but rather it’s sad that we didn’t make the subsequent round.”
Mathews assumed a key part in his country’s 2014 World Cup triumph, scoring 40 runs in the semi-last against West Indies and taking 1-25 in the six-wicket prevail upon India in the last at Dhaka.
Sri Lanka will have simply pride in question when they meet the Dutch on Sunday where a triumph will essentially assist them with moving off the foot of the table.
In any case, Mathews, who will play in his 90th T20 worldwide, demands his group won’t under-gauge the Netherlands having seen Nepal lose by only one hurry to South Africa on Friday.
“We can’t mess with some random group. It’s appalling that our Nepal game was cleaned out yet what will be will be,” he said.
“We have only another game in the competition, and we’ll play for our pride. We haven’t done equity to ourselves, particularly how we played in the initial two games.
“We are shattered and are harming such a great amount inside ourselves.”
