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Stuart Broad, the England captain, believes that his side had the potential to defend the ICC World T20 2012 but he is extremely disappointed that the boys failed to live up to the expectations.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 by 19 runs at Pallekele.
The Poms started the tournament as one of the favourites, being the defending champions, although their batting line-up looked inexperienced without http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jos-Buttler-c1733 failed
to perform consistently, leaving too much for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Eoin-Joseph-Gerard-Morgan-c56032 to do.
This was Broad’s first major tournament as captain and he feels that he had a great chance to lift the illustrious trophy. The fast bowler from Nottingham believes that his side did not play to their full potential in the mega event.
"It's very disappointing to have gone out, because I believe we do have the firepower in that changing room to go far," he said. "Coming to the ground today, knowing you win three games and you win a 'World Cup', you're not that far away. It's frustratingly
close."
On the other side of the coin, Sri Lanka made an interesting move by asking http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397 in danger of being banned due to the Islanders’ poor over-rate earlier in the tournament.
Apart from being the captain, Jayawardene is one of the best Sri Lankan batsmen and the home team cannot afford him to sit out in a knockout fixture.
The right-handed batsman revealed after the match why Sangakkara was asked to lead the team in their last Super 8 encounter.
"The intentions were not bad. But obviously I had a warning for the over rate in the last match. If I get penalised again, I miss the match. It's a tough system, and the penalties are really harsh. We don't want to miss out on a big game - so that's what
we did," said Jayawardene.
The hosts will take on the second qualifying team from Group 2 in the semi-final at Colombo, which will be played on October, 4th.
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