T20 World Cup: Hosts USA upset Pakistan team in Super Over

 T20 World Cup: Hosts USA upset Pakistan team in Super Over

 

Who would have thought that Pakistan and America will ever play a cricket match, but America will beat Pakistan. It was probably not in anyone's imagination.

Pakistan team has been defeated by weaker teams before but this defeat seems to be more serious than all these upsets and due to Pakistan's poor fielding performance, its seriousness has increased.

Adding to the gold is that America was playing the T20 Cricket World Cup for the first time and this defeat came in the Super Over where Pakistan failed to set the target of 19 runs.

In this match of the event held in Dallas, USA, USA won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat.

From the beginning of the match, this decision of the American team proved to be better when the first three players of Pakistan were out in the first power play of the match. The faltering Pakistani batting line-up got some support from Babar and then Shadab, but after both were out, Pakistan's batting could only muster 159 runs.

Chasing the target of 160 runs, the USA cricket team started the innings in a confident manner. The innings was characterized by poor fielding by Pakistan, with Pakistan dropping catches at key opportunities for the American batsmen, and missed fields and extra runs making the US chase easier.

With three good overs by Mohammad Amir, Naseem Shah and Shaheen Afridi, USA needed 15 runs in the last over, but Haris Rauf's last-ball four took the match to a super over.

Super over

In the Super Over, USA batted first and gave Pakistan a target of 19 runs to win. This super over was bowled by Muhammad Amir on behalf of Pakistan.

For a moment in the Super Over, it seemed that the Pakistan team had forgotten to field. In Aamir's over, 10 runs came from the bat while the remaining eight runs were due to wides and poor fielding.

In response, Pakistan's Iftikhar Ahmed and Fakhar Zaman came to the crease to play the super over, but due to the excellent bowling of America, they could not win the match for the team.

Chasing 19 runs, Pakistan managed to score 13 runs for the loss of one wicket and suffered an upset defeat at the hands of USA.

This is America's second win in the ongoing World Cup, having defeated Canada in the first match. After the win against Pakistan, USA has moved to the top position in Group A with 4 points.

Pakistan's innings

In the first match of the event against USA, captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan opened the innings, but the popular pair of the two failed to form a big partnership in this match and Mohammad Rizwan scored only 9 runs in the opening overs of Saurabh Neterwalker. Caught behind the wickets on the ball.

After Rizwan's return to Pauline, Mohammad Usman came into the fray but he too fell victim to Nosthish Kenjie on an individual score of just 3.

Fakhar Zaman came in to bat at number four and started the innings in his own style and hit a six, but after that he also failed to play a big innings and was caught out after scoring 11 runs for a total score of 26.

Shadab Khan supported the team along with Babar Azam and formed a good partnership. When the team's score reached 98 runs, Shadab, who scored 40 runs, was also caught out by Kenjie's ball and returned to the pavilion.

After that, Azam Khan, who came to the crease, got out lbw without adding anything to the score and thus half of the Pakistan team had returned to the pavilion on 98 runs.

Pakistan's sixth out was Babar Azam who played a good but slow innings of 44 runs.

Iftikhar Ahmed's innings ended with an individual score of 18, after which Shaheen Shah Afridi's unbeaten knock of 23 in the

Thus, Pakistan scored 159 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the allotted overs.

America's innings

The US openers provided a 36-run start in chasing the target, after which Pakistan got their first win in the form of the wicket of Steven Taylor. After that Andres Goss and skipper Monanik Patel batted brilliantly and took the team's score to 104, after which Goss scored 35 runs and was bowled by Haris Rauf.

Pakistan did not have to wait long for America's third wicket either and Monanik Patel, who scored a brilliant 50, was guided to the pavilion by Mohammad Amir.

After some poor bowling initially, the Pakistani bowlers took care of the line and length on this occasion and bowled well and the chances of a win started to appear.

However, on the other hand, the Americans showed good strategy and continued to advance the score and were able to enter the match into an interesting phase.

USA needed 15 runs to win in the last over and Pakistan decided to hand the ball to Haris Rauf. A good game was shown by the American team in this over with the help of one six and one four they managed to score 14 so the match was tied.

When it came to the Super Over, Pakistan entrusted Mohammad Amir with the responsibility of getting the ball. The target was given, but the Pakistani team could only score 13 runs.

Who would have thought that the American cricket team would give Pakistan a tough time?

A match was held in Dallas, America, but during that, looking at the performance of the Pakistani team against America in the first match, a storm of memes and trends was also seen on social media.

Saeed Anwar, a well-known former player of the Pakistan cricket team, wrote on X that "Who would have thought that a fledgling team like America would give us a hard time?" The uncertainty of Pakistan's cricket team dressed in green is at its peak!

Priyanoj Sharma wrote on X from India, "Did anyone ever think that a team like Pakistan would be defeated by the American team, now the T20 Cricket World Cup is starting to be fun to watch."

Priyanoj appreciated the performance of the US cricket team and also wrote that "This is another reason why the participation of more teams in the T20 Cricket World Cup is necessary."