T20 World Cup: USA off to perfect start with victory over Canada | Cricket News

Aaron Jones lifted co-hosts USA to their highest-ever run chase and a seven-wicket victory over Canada within the opening match of the T20 World Cup.

Half-centuries from Navneet Dhaliwal and Nicholas Kirton helped Canada set the hosts a goal of 195 for victory on the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday.

After the USA’s openers Steven Taylor and Monank Patel fell rapidly, Jones teamed up with Andries Gous to placed on a power-hitting clinic.

Jones belted 10 sixes en path to an unbeaten 94 from simply 40 balls, whereas Gous added 65 to get the match co-hosts off to an ideal begin.

The ninth version of the T20 World Cup opened with a match-up between two international locations who in 1844 performed the primary worldwide. Canada received a low-scoring three-day recreation in New York that 12 months by 23 runs.

Cricket had been a preferred sport in the US, notably in Philadelphia, however was supplanted by baseball within the latter phases of the nineteenth century.

Now with T20 cricket, a format of comparable size to baseball video games, on the agenda for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, the Worldwide Cricket Council hopes to draw a brand new and probably profitable viewers by splitting the World Cup between the Caribbean and the US.

Two-time champions West Indies open their marketing campaign towards Papua New Guinea in Georgetown on Sunday, dwell on Sky Sports activities from 3pm.

Watch each match from the Males’s T20 World Cup dwell on Sky Sports activities between June 2 and 29. England open up towards Scotland in Barbados on Tuesday (3.30pm first ball) with Eire enjoying India in New York on Wednesday (additionally 3.30pm).

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