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New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson was frustrated by his team’s sub-par performance as their Twenty20 World Cup dream ended with defeat to Pakistan in Wednesday’s semi-final.
The loss means Black Caps will return home without a trophy from a fifth straight white-ball World Cup, despite reaching at least the semi-finals in all of them.
Williamson thought New Zealand’s total of 152-4 at the Sydney Cricket Ground was a winning position, but Pakistan had 105 runs on the board before losing their first batsman and winning by seven wickets.
“The journey in this tournament has been a lot of good but it’s just frustrating not put out a better performance today,” he told reporters.
“If you get beaten playing your best cricket, then you certainly have to accept that. Today was a little bit disappointing. There were some good bits but we thought we had a defendable total if we were to be on our game.”
When asked about yet another failure to win a trophy, Williamson returned to his focus on performance.
“You’re always looking at the performance, and we’ve played in a number of different finals and put out really good performances, probably good enough to win,” he said.
“And then we’ve got met by a side that’s played a little bit better or about equal.
“The frustrating part of this today is we weren’t quite on top of our game. We fought hard and we showed some good characteristics, and attitudes we want to see, but, yeah, it wasn’t to be.
“You play a number of tournaments, you want to win some, but you finish the tournament and you just start focusing on the next one.”
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