scotland made a valliant effort to their reply, but in the end, they fell 16 runs short, which means they're out of the competition with 2 matches still to play. we've had a number of games against new zealand over the years and some have been close and some haven't and this is one where you are saying, 17 runs, which is a reasonable sizing t20 cricket we would look back and say where were those little moments in the game where we could have closed the gap and may be used that as an opportunity missed but that is where we have to keep raising the bar. meanwhile india thrashed afghanistan with a 66 run victory, rohit sharma and kl rahul, shared a commanding opening stand of 140 to finish, on 210 for 2. afghanistan never looked capable, of chasing that target. they remain though second in group 2. after weeks of uncertainty over this winter's ashes, england finally fly out