The T20 World Cup 2024 kicks off later today at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas. Let’s delve into the details of the highly anticipated encounter.
The United States, led by Monank Patel and the Canadian side, led by Saad Bin Zafar, will face off in the tournament opener later today at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas.
Match Timing
The USA and Canada rivalry dates back to 1844 when the St. George’s Cricket Club in New York hosted the first-ever international cricket match between the two nations. The match at the T20 World Cup 2024 will start at 5:30 am PST on June 2. The local time of the match is 7:30 on June 1.
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Canada vs. USA: Head-to-Head in T20I
The two nations have faced each other seven times in the T20I circuit. Five of them have won by the USA and Canada managed to win twice out of the seven. Four out of five wins by the USA have come in the last series where they defeated the Canadians (4-0).
Morale before the Match
“We don’t want to regret anything, we want to leave everything out there on the park.” Said the attacking American opener, Aaron Jones.
“If we come out on top, it’s great. If we don’t come out on top, that’s how cricket goes sometimes. But we don’t want to regret anything.”
Canada’s captain, Saad, also expressed similar ideas at the same time.
“We’ve arrived at last. We’ve arrived at last,” Saad said. Everyone is thrilled. Everyone is eager to go. Everyone is feeling performance-oriented. I believe that in the coming weeks, we will be prepared to play some excellent cricket.
“We don’t have a great deal of responsibility. We simply want to play to our abilities and express ourselves, in my opinion. We want to play cricket in that particular style.
Squads of both teams for T20 World Cup 2024
Canada
Saad Bin Zafar (c), Aaron Johnson, Dilon Heyliger, Dilpreet Bajwa, Harsh Thaker, Jeremy Gordon, Junaid Siddiqui, Kaleem Sana, Kanwarpal Tathgur, Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Pargat Singh, Ravinderpal Singh, Rayyankhan Pathan, Shreyas Movva. Reserves: Tajinder Singh, Aaditya Varadharajan, Ammar Khalid, Jatinder Matharu, Parveen Kumar.
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United States
Monank Patel (c), Aaron Jones, Andries Gous, Corey Anderson, Ali Khan, Harmeet Singh, Jessy Singh, Milind Kumar, Nisarg Patel, Nitish Kumar, Noshtush Kenjige, Saurabh Nethralvakar, Shadley Van Schalkwyk, Steven Taylor, Shayan Jahangir. Reserve Players: Gajanand Singh, Juanoy Drysdale, Yasir Mohammad
Our Prediction
With the recent win over Bangladesh and the momentum the USA has gained approaching the T20 World Cup 2024, they seem to be the favorites of this first encounter. With the home advantage as well.
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