Aaron Jones’s 94 not out helped the USA chase the target in the 18th over with just three wickets lost. Sixes galore in the T20 World Cup opener.
The USA comfortably defeated Canada in the T20 World Cup opener by 7 wickets. USA’s Aaron Jones and Ghous scored 94 not out and 65, respectively, to make the chase even more comfortable. Canada was good with the bat, but the bowling and fielding were too average.
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Toss was won by the USA and they decided to put Canada into bat first. Canada scored a handsome total of 194 for 5, with opener Dhaliwal scoring 61 off 44 and Nicholas Kirton scoring 51 off 31.
In just 17.4 overs, the hosts chased a 195-run target after an aggressive performance of 94 runs in 40 balls, including 10 maximums and four fours, by USA’s Aaron Jones in the second innings.
With 131 runs in their partnership, Jones and Andries Gous achieved the greatest run rate of any century partnership at the T20 World Cup, at 14.29 runs per over.
Aaron Jones the Explosive American better, equaled a unique and mind-blowing record last night. He has joined the company of the universe Boss, Chris Gayle, who has also hit ten sixes twice in the T20 World Cup match.
Playing 11 of Canada
1 Aaron Johnson, 2 Navneet Dhaliwal, 3 Pargat Singh, 4 Nicholas Kirton, 5 Shreyas Movva (wk), 6 Dilpreet Bajwa, 7 Saad Bin Zafar (capt), 8 Nikhil Dutta, 9 Dilon Heyliger, 10 Kaleem Sana, 11 Jeremy Gordon
Playing 11 of USA
1 Steven Taylor, 2 Monank Patel (capt, wk), 3 Andries Gous, 4 Aaron Jones, 5 Nitish Kumar, 6 Corey Anderson, 7 Harmeet Singh, 8 Shadley van Schalkwyk, 9 Jasdeep Singh, 10 Ali Khan, 11 Saurabh Netravalkar
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