CAN vs USA
Playing first, Canada has put 137 runs on the scoreboard. The start of the innings was quite bad, but a 75-runs partnership between Nicholas Kirton and Shreyas Movva helped the Canadian team reach a respectable score.
The most runs for the team came from Nicholas’ bat, who played a brilliant innings of 49 runs in 35 balls. During this, he also hit 3 fours and 2 sixes. On the other hand, Shreyas contributed 37 runs in 36 balls. Talking about Ireland’s bowling, Barry McCarthy and Craig Young took the most wickets, both of them took two wickets each. Craig Young was playing his first match in this World Cup.
After losing the toss, Canada came to bat first, but the team had a very bad stat. The team had lost 2 important wickets after scoring 26 runs within the first 5 overs. Navneet Dhaliwal scored 6 runs and Aaron Jones was out after scoring only 14 runs. By the end of the powerplay over, the team’s score was 37 runs for the loss of 2 wickets. But in the very next over, Pargat Singh returned to the pavilion after scoring 18 runs.
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The situation of the team was not ready to improve and after Pargat’s 11 runs, Dilpreet Bajwa was also out after scoring 7 runs. The team had scored 63 runs after losing 3 wickets by the end of 10 overs. The team did not lose any wicket in the next 5 overs. but due to slow run rate, the team could score only 29 runs. In the 16th over, Nicholas and Shreyas scored 18 runs. In the next 3 overs, 34 runs were scored, due to which the team’s score became 126 runs by the end of 18 overs. Meanwhile, in the 19th over, Barry McCarthy shocked Canada by taking 2 big wickets. 9 runs were scored in the 20th over, due to which Canada’s innings ended at 137 runs.
The innings was steadied by a 75-run partnership
Canada lost the first 4 wickets within 53 runs, from where it was becoming difficult for the team to even score 100 runs. In such a situation, Nicholas Kirton and Shreyas Mova played a well-planned innings and there was an excellent partnership of 75 runs between them. Although Nicholas fell just one run short of completing his fifty, his innings of 49 runs in 35 balls was very important for Canada. Shreyas was out on the last ball of the innings on a score of 37 runs.