Virat Kohli said on Monday that the Indian players are disappointed at not being able to go past the Super 12 stage of the 2021 T20 World Cup. India played their last game of the tournament on Monday, beating Namibia by nine wickets in what was Kohli’s last match as the team’s T20I captain.

India end the tournament third in Group 2 behind top-placed Pakistan, who are the only team to have won all five of their Super 12 matches, and New Zealand. India’s net run rate of +1.747 is, however, the highest in the group.

Together as one we set out to achieve our goal.Unfortunately we fell short and no one is more disappointed than us as a side.The support from all of you has been fantastic and we are grateful for it all.We will aim to come back stronger and put our best foot forward. Jai Hind pic.twitter.com/UMUQgInHrV

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) November 8, 2021

India started the tournament with heavy defeats to Pakistan and New Zealand, which all but sealed their fate in the tournament. While they sank to a 10-wicket defeat to Pakistan in their first match of the tournament, they then lost to New Zealand by eight wickets.

While India bounced back strongly in the rest of their Super 12 matches, their chances of going through depended upon New Zealand losing for a second time. That possibility ended when New Zealand beat Afghanistan by eight wickets on Sunday.

“Positives are the way we played the last three games. It’s a game of margins – T20 cricket these days. Two overs of cricket in the first two games with intent and things could have been different. We are not a team that is going to make an argument about the toss because you should do well both times, whether you win or lose the toss.

“We were not brave enough in the first two games and we suffered because of that. Our group was such that we knew after the first two games that it is going to be complicated to go through,” said Kohli after the match on Monday.