T20 World Cup Qualifier: Italy Shock Scotland, Sri Lanka in place of a young woman in Extravaganza in India. Cricket news

Italy came close to qualifying for its first ICC men’s T20 World Cup after winning 12 runs over Scotland in the Europe regional final. The victory holds Italy at the top of the standing with a net run rate of 1.722, suited to qualification for the 2026 T20 World Cup to be held in India and Sri Lanka.Former Australian Test player who led the Italian team led by Burns, now needs to win the Netherlands in their final match on Friday or have failed to win their respective matches by a significant margin to a narrow disadvantage combined with Jersey and Scotland.Italy’s position in the tournament standing shows him ahead of Jersey (0.430) and fourth in the scotland (-0.150) in terms of net run rate, leading him ahead in the final matches.“I am really proud of the boys for this moment,” Burns said. “To visit and defeat Scotland, who is a great team, is a good reward for our players, employees and federation sacrifices.”“Hopefully it is a lot to come. It is a very emotional group at the moment. Being on the verge of the World Cup? It’s very real.”Italy also organized a strategic benefit in the tournament schedule, as their match against the Netherlands is the last game of the tournament, which is taking place after the Jersey-Skotland competition. This scheduling allows Italy to know what they need to achieve in their match against Dutch.The situation requires jersey and Scotland to improve their net run rates to adopt an aggressive approach in their first match and to maintain their merit expectations.Scotland captain Richie Berington accepted his team’s disappointing performance against Italy, maintaining hope for merit.“We put ourselves in it, but did not manage to execute in the end,” he said. “A lot of credit has to go to Italy, who gave us the ball as well as cook.”“Obviously a difficult today, but it is important that we learn what we can do with this game. We want to come back strong.”“We have to focus on coming back on Friday and look at that game to win, then takes the rest itself.”