As the T20 World Cup 2024 reaches the Super-8 stages, the Indian team led by Rohit Sharma managed to make it three wins on the bounce with a victory over the co-hosts the United States of America by seven wickets at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York.
It was a contest that India were expected to sail through and in the end, it was indeed the case but not before USA put up a strong fight in defense of a low total at the Nassau County Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
Chasing 111, India lost their top-three batters – Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant – cheaply on a tricky pitch but Suryakumar Yadav scored an unbeaten half-century to steer them over the line.
Suryakumar scored an unbeaten 50 off 49 with the help of two fours and as many sixes and stitched an unbroken partnership of 72 runs for the fourth wicket with Shivam Dube (31*).
This was after Saurabh Netravalkar continued his dream run in the world cup as he got rid of Kohli for a golden duck by having him caught behind before accounting for Rohit in his next over to leave India wobbling at 10/2 in 2.2 overs.
Speaking at the post-match presentation, Arshdeep said, “Very very happy with the performance. In the last two games, I gave away a few more runs and was not happy with that. The team always shows belief in me and kept backing me, I had to deliver for them. The wicket is very conducive to fast bowlers and it’s helping us get some seam movement.”
“The plan was simple, pitch it in the wicket and let the ball do the talking. Do not give easy balls to score, our batsmen are also facing difficulties to score runs. The plan was to hit the hard lengths. In conditions like this, you can use the wicket more. When you are playing international cricket, you need to have some routines and the way you take care of your body counts,” he said.
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