To have missed out vs gutted to miss out

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Gutted to have missed out on a double century: Rahul
Gutted to have missed out on a double century: Rahul - Rediff Cricket
Please explain the use of(present perfect) "to have missed out".
Does "Gutted to miss out" have the same meaning and grammatically correct as the "have missed out"?
Thanks

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

JigneshbharatiGutted to miss out

present or future missing out

This doesn't make sense because he has already missed out.

JigneshbharatiGutted to have missed out

past missing out

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Whenever you explain a reaction to something that happened, it's with the past because the event has already happened. Here's another one: thankful to have been selected You can't be thankful for something until after it has happened.

CJ

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Here is the quote in the article. The quotation is present tense, because he says it at the time the game was played.

The ball from leg-spinner was wide and slow. It made Rahul’s downfall even more painful, the 24-year-old dropping to the floor in dismay as he realised he had blown his big chance to reach 200.

"Right now it is missing out on the double that’s on my mind,” he said. “It took some time to sink in. I was really disappointed because 200 is a big landmark for any batsmen. I don’t chase milestones but getting a double would have been a proud moment. I am gutted to miss out.

Now that event is in the past. So instead of writing the present, "Rahul is gutted to miss out.", we write the past tense form, "Rahul was gutted to have missed out."
Both the main verb and the infinitive are shifted to the past. The only past form of the infinitive is the perfect infinitive.

To have missed out vs gutted to miss out

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