USA vs Canada Match Highlights
America defeated Canada in the first match of T20 world Cup 2024. America won by 7 wickets. In the match, America won the toss and decided to bowl, which went completely in their favor. While chasing the target, Aaron Jones played the biggest innings for America and scored 94* runs in 40 balls with the help of 4 fours and 10 sixes. Apart from this, Andris Goos scored 65runs in 46 balls with 7 fours and 3 sixes. Both of them made a great partnership of 131 (58 balls) runs for the third wicket.
In the match played at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas, Canada batted first and scored 194 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. Navneet Dhaliwal played the biggest innings for the team and scored 61 runs in 44 balls with the help of 6 fours and 3 sixes. Then America came to chase the target and won in 17.4 overs. Canadian bowlers looked completely helpless in front of the American batsman.
This is how America won the match easily.
America had a very bad start while chasing the target of 195 runs. The team lost its first wicket in the form of Seven Taylor on the second ball of the first over, who returned to the pavilion without opening his account. Then captain Monank Patel and Andris Goos shared a 42 (37 balls) run partnership for the second wicket. This partnership ended with the wicket of captain Patel on the third ball of the 7th over. Monank played an innings of 16 runs with the help of 2 fours in 16 balls.
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After this Andris Goos and Aaron Jones made a quick partnership of 131 runs (58 balls). for the third wicket. This partnership turned the match in America’s favor. After this partnership, the match became one-sided for America. This great partnership ended with the wicket of Andris Goos on the fourth ball of the 16th over, Andris played an innings of 65 runs with the help of 7 fours and 3 sixes in 46 balls.
After this, Corey Anderson and Aaron Jones made an unbroken partnership of 24* (12 balls) for the fourth wicket and gave America the victory. Jones scored 94* runs, while Anderson remained unbeaten after scoring 3* runs in 5 balls. Anada’s bowlers were thrashed
America batsmen thrashed Canada’s bowlers. Kaleem Sana. Dillon Heyliger and Nikhil Dutta took 1-1 wicket for Canada. Nikhil Dutta proves to be the most expensive for the team, who gave away 41 runs in 2.4 overs at an economy of 15.40. Apart from this, Pargat Singh gave away 15 runs in over. Jeremy Gordon gave away 44 rues in 4 overs at an economy of 10.50.