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T20 World Cup: USA easily defeated Canada by 7 wickets

News Desk

Jun 02

USA easily defeated Canada by 7 wickets in the opening match of International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.

In the Group A match played in Dallas, USA captain Monank Patel won the toss and invited Canada to bat first.

Canada’s inning:

Canada scored 194 runs for 5 wickets in the alloted 20 overs while batting brilliantly against USA, Navneet Dhaliwal 61 runs.

Apart from this, Nicholas Curtin scored 51 runs, Irwin Johnson scored 23 runs, Dilpreet Bajwa scored 11 runs while Shreyas Mowa remained unbeaten with 32 runs.

Ali Khan, Harmeet Singh and Corey Anderson took one wicket each for USA.

USA’s inning:

In pursuit of the target given by Canada, USA’s first wicket fell for nil and the host team had to bear the second loss for 42 runs, but for the third wicket, Andres Goss and Aaron Johnson established a wonderful partnership of 131 run.

Goss was dismissed for 65 runs off 46 balls, but Johnson continued his best batting streak and scored an unbeaten innings of 94 runs off 40 balls with 10 sixes and 4 fours to guide his team to victory.

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