India survived a sizeable scare towards the USA because the Males’s T20 World Cup co-hosts threatened to tug off one other beautiful upset of their Group A gathering in New York.
Having overwhelmed Pakistan in one of many biggest World Cup upsets of all time of their earlier match, the USA had India rattled at 10-2 within the third over of their pursuit of 111 to win.
Virat Kohli was dismissed for a first-ball duck by Saurabh Netravalkar (2-18), who beforehand represented India on the 2010 Below-19s World Cup however who has labored as an engineer for the previous six years within the States.
Netravalkar, who bowled the profitable Tremendous Over within the upset victory over Pakistan, additionally picked up captain Rohit Sharma (3) in his subsequent over, however his later drop of Suryakumar Yadav (50no) would show expensive as India in the end received by seven wickets.
Rishabh Pant (18) was clean-bowled by Ali Khan (1-21) with one which saved low to beat the big-hitting left-hander, additional troubling India at 44-3.
However the important thing second got here within the thirteenth over when Suryakumar was dropped on 22 with India nonetheless requiring an extra 53 from 45 deliveries.
He cashed in on the reprieve, mentioning his half-century shortly earlier than Shivam Dube (29no) hit the profitable runs with 10 balls to spare, clinching India’s progress via to the Tremendous 8s stage of the event.
The USA will be part of them as runners-up ought to they beat Eire of their last group recreation on Friday. Defeat would probably open the door to Pakistan or Eire – who meet on Sunday – to qualify of their place.
Earlier, after India received the toss and elected to bowl first, Arshdeep Singh (4-9) was the star of the present, taking two wickets in his opening over to right away cut back the US to 3-2.
Steven Taylor offered 24 useful runs to regular the ship, whereas Nitish Kumar top-scored with 27, the odd lusty blow offered alongside the best way because the US posted a rating of 110-8.
With Canada’s 137 of their win over Eire proving the best complete thus far within the seven prior matches performed on the low-scoring New York floor, the USA’s complete would show greater than aggressive however India’s expertise and the category of Suryakumar, particularly, in the end informed.
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