Astralia broke Scottish hearts with a hardfought five-wicket triumph in St Lucia on Saturday that sent the Scots home from the Twenty20 World Cup and champions Britain through to the Very Eight phase.
After Britain's downpour disturbed triumph over Namibia in Antigua prior in the day, Scotland required a draw, a waste of time or a very first success over Australia to advance from Gathering B to the detriment of their southern neighbors.
Clear skies at Gros Islet implied the Scots would be dependent on their cricketing abilities and they made a decent clench hand of it with 180-5 from their 20 overs featured by a quickfire 60 from Brandon McMullen and 42 not out from captain Richie Berrington.
Australia, who had previously reserved their spot in the subsequent round, will have been disheartened with their handling and the beginning of their innings however Travis Head (68) and Marcus Stoinis (59) advanced quickly in the last 10 overs to assist with getting them across the line.
"Scotland are a great outfit, they brought it last second and it was a decent pursue eventually," said Australia commander Mitchell Bog.
"The World Cup sort of starts again now, we're amped up for what's to come."
Berrington, whose group withdraw in light of the fact that they had a lower net run rate than Britain, said the Scots were disheartened that they had not driven home their benefit.
"I thought we were in a very decent position," he said.
"Sadly, we didn't execute for quite some time. I figure the folks can hold their heads high concerning how they've played their cricket all through the competition."
Australia won the throw and chose for field first however after Ashton Agar had bowled opener Michael Jones in the first finished, George Munsey and McMullen set up an organization of 89 for the second wicket to lay a strong stage for Scotland.
Munsey holed out to midwicket for 35 off the bowling of Glenn Maxwell and Adam Zampa at last winkled out McMullen, who clubbed two sixes and six fours preceding Mitchell Starc sent him back with a jumping get.
Berrington accepted the responsibility however the Scots would have been frustrated to score just 42 runs in their last five overs as the Australian bowlers fixed the screws to compensate for a handling exertion that had seen a whirlwind of dropped gets.
The Scots brought some force into the Australian innings, nonetheless, and David Warner (1), Swamp (8) and Maxwell (11) were taken out efficiently, the last option bowled by a peach of a conveyance from left-arm spinner Imprint Watt.
Opener Travis Head, in any case, was warming to the errand and Marcus Stoinis participated in him an organization of 80 for the third wicket that reversed the situation.
Head conclusively clubbed three sixes off progressive legitimate conveyances from Safyaan Sharif soon and albeit the Scottish seamer promptly finished his innings, the Australians had the aroma of triumph in their noses.
Watt got back to eliminate Stoinis in the accompanying over yet Tim David and Matthew Swim got Australia across the line to quietness the scheme scholars proposing Australia would attempt to lose to eliminate Britain from the competition.
Crews
Australia: 1 David Warner, 2 Travis Head, 3 Mitchell Bog (capt), 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Tim David, 7 Matthew Swim (wk), 8 Ashton Agar, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Ellis, 11 Adam Zampa
Scotland: 1 George Munsey, 2 Michael Jones, 3 Brandon McMullen, 4 Richie Berrington (capt), 5 Matthew Cross (wk), 6 Michael Leask, 7 Chris Greaves, 8 Imprint Watt, 9 Chris Sole, 10 Brad Wheal, 11 Safyaan Sharif
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