USA vs India T20 Match Live
USA has scored 143 runs while playing first. India won the toss and invited the host team to bat but considering the pitch of Nassau County Stadium in New York, USA has put up a respectable score.
Nitish Kumar scored the most runs for the team, scoring 27 runs in 23 balls. Apart from him, Steven Taylor also contributed 24 runs. USA’s regular captain Monak Patel was not playing in this match. Aaron Jones, who came to captain in his place, could score only 11 runs. Arshdeep Singh bowled brilliantly for India, taking 4 wickets for just 9 runs in 4 overs
.USA’s innings started badly, as Arshdeep Singh dismissed Shayan Jahangir, who was making his T20 World Cup debut, LBW on the very first ball of the match. Andries Gaus also could not stay at the crease for long, scoring only 2 runs. Meanwhile, by the end of the powerplay, USA could score only 18 runs. Although Aaron Jones returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs. The situation was such that in the first 10 overs, USA could score only 42 runs after losing 3 wickets.
There were high expectations from Taylor that he would play a big innings, but in the 12th over, Akshar Patel bowled him out on a score of 24. Nitish Kumar certainly tried to score runs fast, but he too was dismissed in the 15th over after scoring 27 runs in 23 balls. By the end of 15 overs, USA had scored 81 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. Corey Anderson went for a big shot in an attempt to score runs quickly and got caught by Rishabh Pant. Wickets were falling at regular intervals and finally USA reached the 100-run mark in the 18th over. Only 10 runs came in the next 2 overs, due to which USA’s innings ended at 110 runs.
Arshdeep Singh’s superb bowling
In the match against USA, Arshdeep Singh’s bowling wreaked from the very first ball. Arshdeep took 4 wickets for only 9 runs in 4 overs in this match. Arshdeep dismissed Shayan Jahangir LBW on the very first ball of the innings. After that he also took the wickets of Andries Gaus, Nitish Kumar and Harmeet Singh. This is also the best bowling figure for India in the T20 World Cup. Before him, this record was in the name of Ravichandran Ashwin, who took 2 wickets for only 11 runs in 4 overs against Australia in 2014.