T20 World Cup 2024: The Indian cricket team defeated America and completed a hat-trick of victory in the T20 World Cup 2024. With this, Team India qualified for the Super 8 by defeating the host team by 7 wickets. Along with Suryakumar Yadav and Shivam Dubey, Arshdeep Singh also played an important role in giving India this victory. While Arshdeep did wonders in bowling, Suryakumar Yadav and Shivam Dubey gave Team India a thrilling victory by putting a peg in batting. India has 6 points in 3 matches and the team has reached the Super 8 by staying on top with 6 points in Group A. The Indian team will take on Canada on June 15 in its last group match.
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The Indian team (IND vs USA), which came out to chase the target set by the host US, achieved it in 18.2 overs by losing 3 wickets. Team India had a very bad start. Virat Kohli got out on the second ball of the first over. Saurabh Netravalkar did not even let him open the account. Saurabh got Rohit Sharma caught by Harmeet on a personal score of 3 runs. Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant returned to the pavilion after scoring 18 runs. India had lost their 3 wickets on a total score of 39. For India, Suryakumar Yadav scored an unbeaten 50 off 49 balls while Shivam Dubey returned unbeaten after scoring 31 runs off 35 balls.
India got the target of 111 runs to win
USA has given India a target of 111 runs to win. During this, Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya bowled brilliantly for India. Nitish Kumar scored 27 runs for USA. He hit 2 fours and 1 six. Taylor scored 24 runs. Aaron Jones contributed 11 runs. Harmeet Singh returned to the pavilion after scoring 10 runs. In this way, USA scored 110 runs by losing 8 wickets in 20 overs.
For India, Arshdeep took 4 wickets for 9 runs in 4 overs. Hardik Pandya took 2 wickets for 14 runs in 4 overs. He also bowled 1 maiden over. Axar Patel took 1 wicket.
Arshdeep Singh made a record
Arshdeep Singh has become the best bowling Indian bowler in the T20 World Cup. Arshdeep took four wickets for 9 runs. Earlier in the T20 World Cup, R Ashwin took 4 wickets for 11 runs from India, which was the best bowling performance by an Indian bowler in a match. Ashwin did this feat in the match against Australia in Mirpur in 2014.
Nitish Kumar played an innings of 27 runs
For America, Nitish Kumar contributed 27 runs in 23 balls while opener Steven Taylor contributed 24 runs in 30 balls. Batting on this pitch has proved to be very difficult so far, so this target can be challenging for India as well. The team winning this match will secure its place in the Super Eight. Arshdeep got Shayan Jahangir (0) out LBW on the first ball of the opening over and then got Andreas Gaus (2 runs) out on the last ball to give India a great start.
Jones took over as captain in place of injured Monak Patel
Aaron Jones (11), who was leading the team in place of injured captain Monak Patel, showed aggression by hitting a six off Mohammed Siraj’s bouncer, but Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik bowled economical overs as the US could score only 18 runs for 2 wickets in the power play. Jones got caught by Siraj off Hardik’s ball while trying to play another big shot. Taylor, who was playing cautiously till now, hit a six off Shivam Dubey who came to bowl in the ninth over. He was bowled after hitting the second six of his innings against Axar in the 12th over.
Team India won the toss and decided to bowl
Team India has won the toss and decided to bowl first. USA players will come on the field to bat first.
Team India’s Playing XI
Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj
USA’s Playing XI
USA Playing XI: Steven Taylor, Shayan Jahangir, Andries Goss (wk), Aaron Jones (c), Nitish Kumar, Corey Anderson, Harmeet Singh, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Jasdeep Singh, Saurabh Netravalkar, Ali Khan
