Beaten Scots vow to bounce back

All-rounder Dougie Brown tries to field off his own bowling against Sri Lanka

Scotland skipper Craig Wright backed his side to emerge stronger from the experience of losing to Sri Lanka in their opening World Cup warm-up game.

The Scots lost by 159 runs after being bowled out for just 135.

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But Wright said: "You can't go out there and play against Muralitharan or Vaas and expect to succeed if you haven't faced them before.

"Next time some of the guys come up against them, they may have formulated some plans to be able to cope."

Wright was content with his side's performance during Sri Lanka's innings and they will now look to build on that against Bangladesh on Thursday before taking on Australia on 14 March in their first game of the tournament proper.

"I thought the majority of our session in the field, we did pretty well. The fielding stood up pretty well to what is a vastly experienced and top-quality batting line-up.

"I thought we started really well. I thought new-ball bowlers John Blain and Paul Hoffmann set the tone really well, and then we got [Sanath] Jayasuriya out at the right time before things got out of hand."

Opposite number Mahela Jayawardene praised his team's "smart cricket" throughout the game.

"Coming into the World Cup and playing a side like Scotland, whom we haven't played before, we wanted to make sure we concentrated really well and focused on the game in hand - and we did that," he said.

"We had a 100-run stand, a couple of 50-run stands, the only thing we would have liked is one of the guys batting through the innings and getting 100."

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Jayasuriya (77) and Upul Tharanga (70) came closest and their opening partnership is likely to be crucial if Sri Lanka are to repeat their World Cup triumph of 1996.

"We wanted to assess how the wicket would play here. We felt it was a bit slow and if we had given away early wickets, it would have been difficult for us.

"Once the openers got used to the pitch, we got our target, we got 120 from 20 overs. We played some smart cricket and that's what we might have to do in this World Cup because the wickets will play differently in different places."

Jayawardene, meanwhile, defended the involvement of ICC associate member teams like Scotland in the competition.

"It's healthy for cricket....that's how we reached the standard we have now. From our point of view, that's how teams get exposure and get experience," he added.