Desk: In the first match of the World Cup T-20 played in Mumbai, India won its first match by defeating USA by 29 runs. Now India’s next match will be against Namibia on 12 February. Batting first, the Indian team faltered but under the captaincy of captain Surya Kumar Yadav, in which he played an unbeaten inning of 84 runs on 49 balls, India set a target of 162 runs for USA. With this, Surya created history for India. He has become the fourth Indian captain to do so. Actually, we are talking about the players who have scored the most runs for India as captain. Chasing the challenge of 162 runs from India, the USA team could only score 132 runs for 8 wickets at the loss of 7 wickets.

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After losing the toss, the Indian team batted first and scored 161 runs for 9 wickets. The start of the Indian team was nothing special. Abhishek Sharma was out on his very first ball. Ali Khan sent Abhishek to the pavilion. Ishan Kishan and Tilak Verma tried to establish themselves at the crease, but Shadley Van Schalkwyk bowled brilliantly in the last over of the powerplay. Shalkvik dismissed Ishaan (20 runs) on the second ball of the over. Then on the last two balls, Shalkvik dismissed Tilak Verma (25 runs) and Shivam Dubey (0 runs). India’s score was 46/4 at the time of Shivam’s dismissal.

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Rinku Singh and Hardik Pandya also disappointed. Rinku became the victim of Mohammad Mohsin on the personal score of 6 runs. Whereas Hardik Pandya was dismissed by Harmeet Singh. At the time of Hardik’s dismissal, India’s score was 77/6. From here, there was a partnership of 41 runs for the seventh wicket between Akshar Patel and captain Suryakumar Yadav. Akshar Patel became Harmeet’s victim after scoring 14 runs. Shortly after Akshar’s dismissal, captain Surya completed his fifty.
Suryakumar Yadav remained at the crease, but in the meantime India lost the wickets of Arshdeep Singh (4 runs) and Varun Chakraborty (0 runs). Suryakumar scored unbeaten 84 runs on 49 balls, which included 10 fours and four sixes. For USA, Shadley Van Schalkwyk took four wickets for 25 runs. Whereas Harmeet Singh achieved two successes. Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah was not included in the playing-11 of the Indian team for this match.

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