Both USA and Canada have treated us to a very good game of cricket. The hosts pulled off a great come-from-behind victory. The conditions here seem to have some extra new ball help in second innings, but dew did make batting a lot easier after powerplay, so teams batting first need to take that into consideration when setting targets. Overall, it's been a pretty good batting wicket. We will learn more about conditions as the tournament wears on. West Indies take on Papua New Guinea for their tournament opener in a few hours from now in Guyana. We will see you all for game two of this carnival. Goodbye!
Monank Patel | USA captain: We always we knew he (Aaron Jones) had the game. He played fearless cricket. Really happy to see the crowd in numbers, hope they continue to give us the support. We want to continue the way we play are playing (fearless cricket). We don't want to change anything whether we play Pakistan or India.
Saad Bin Zafar | Canada captain: 194 was a great total. I was pretty happy. We started well but Jones and Gous batted exceptionally well and our bowlers had no chance. Pitch had good bounce and it did get better for batting in the second innings with dew coming in. We missed the line and lengths. No balls and extras we shouldn't have given away those. We played an exceptional game overall. Nothing to be sad effort. Good effort from the boys, this is just the start and hope we can do well in the next game.
Aaron Jones | Player of the Match: I don't think it is easy to put it into words. Happy to get my team over the line. I thought anything under 200 is chaseable. We wanted to play aggressive cricket. I think I go through my process while I practice. To be honest, when my team is under pressure it gets the best out of me.
Stats round-up by Deepu Narayanan
Highest targets succesfully chased in T20 WCs 230 Eng vs SA Wankhede 2016 206 SA vs WI Joburg 2007 195 USA vs Can Dallas 2024 * 193 WI vs Ind Wankhede 2016 192 Aus vs Pak Gros Islet 2010
Highest targets succesfully chased by USA in T20Is 195 vs Can Dallas 2024 * 169 vs Can Houston 2024 155 vs Jersey Bulawayo 2022 154 vs Ban Houston 2024
Highest parnership for USA in T20Is 131 A Gous - A Jones vs Can Dallas 2024 110 S Modani - Gajanand Singh vs Ire Lauderhill 2021 104 M Patel - S Taylor vs Can Houston 2024 104 N Kumar - C Anderson vs Can Houston 2024
Most sixes by a batter in an inngs in T20 WCs 11 C Gayle vs Eng Wankhede 2016 10 C Gayle vs SA Joburg 2007 10 A Jones vs Can Dallas 2024 * 8 R Rossouw vs Ban Sydney 2022
Most runs conceded in an over in T20 WCs 36 S Broad vs Ind Durban 2007 33 Jeremy Gordon vs USA Dallas 2024 * 32 Izatullah Dawlatzai vs Eng Colombo RPS 30 Bilawal Bhatti vs Aus Mirpur 2014
22:58 Local Time, 03:58 GMT, 09:28 IST: USA have made a great start to this World Cup that they are co-hosting. They looked down and out for a while in this run chase but Aaron Jones decided to play an outstanding innings. Taylor fell for a nought. Patel couldn't get going and perished. Gous wasn't exactly going great and the asking rate shot up with the team only going at 6 per over at the 8-over mark. Both Gous and Jones decided to press the accelerator. 19, 14, 10, 15, 20, 33 were scored in the next 6 overs and stun Canada and blow them away. Jones was the aggressor and recorded the fastest T20I fifty for USA. His slogging, slog-sweeping, leg-side play was at its level best and he played one hell of a counterattacking innings
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Nikhil Dutta to Aaron Jones, SIX, fittingly, Aaron Jones muscles the winning hit over mid-wicket for a maximum.
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Nikhil Dutta to Aaron Jones, no run
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Nikhil Dutta to Aaron Jones, SIX, he's palmed that over square leg for a maximum.
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Nikhil Dutta to Aaron Jones, FOUR, reverse sweep over the leaping short third man fielder for a boundary. Full and outside off stump, Jones middles this so well
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