Pakistan vs USA Score T20 World Cup: Batting first in the match against USA, Pakistan scored 190 runs. In this match being played in Colombo, Sahibzada Farhan played a strong half-century innings, while Babar Azam started slowly, but this time his bat also created havoc. This is the same USA team, which had caused a huge upset to Pakistan in the 2024 T20 World Cup.

The USA team made a strong comeback in the last overs and stopped Pakistan from touching the 200-run mark. By 18 overs, Pakistan had scored 173 runs and Shadab Khan’s bat was hitting boundary after boundary. In the last 2 overs, USA bowlers gave only 15 runs and dismissed 5 batsmen of Pakistan team.

Sahibzada’s half-century, Babar also shines

Sam Ayub’s poor form continues, who was out after scoring only 19 runs. But Sahibzada Farhan thrashed the USA bowlers. He completed his fifty in 27 balls and in this match he scored 73 runs in 41 balls. In this innings played at a stormy strike rate of around 178, 6 fours and 5 sixes came from his bat.

Babar Azam played an inning of 46 runs in 32 balls. Babar had scored only 15 runs in the first 18 balls of his innings, but scored 31 runs in the last 14 balls. In this innings he hit 4 fours and one six.

5 wickets fell in 12 balls

5 wickets fell in the last 12 balls of Pakistan team’s innings. In the 19th over, Shadley Van Schalkwyk gave only 6 runs and also took 2 wickets. Whereas Saurabh Netrawalkar took three wickets in the 20th over and gave only 11 runs. Talking about Shalkvik, he took 4 wickets for 25 runs, which is the best bowling figures for the USA team against any ICC full member country in T20 cricket. He had done a similar feat in the match against India in the same World Cup.

The first match of T20 World Cup 2026 is today between Pakistan and Netherlands. The match will be played at the Sinhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground in Colombo, where there is a possibility of rain today. In this respect also the role of toss is important. The toss will take place at 10:30 am.

Pakistan and Netherlands are included in Group A of T20 World Cup 2026. The two have clashed twice before in T20, Pakistan has won both times. Salman Ali Aga would like to make it 3-0 from today, while the Netherlands team will enter the field with the intention of causing a big upset. The toss is important today due to the weather, the winning captain can decide to bowl first.

shadow of rain on the match

There is a possibility of rain in Colombo today. The toss will take place at 10:30 am and the match will start at 11 am. At this time the probability of rain is 20 percent. The highest chances of rain are between 1 pm and 3 pm. According to the weather report, the probability of rain in these 2 hours is up to 70 percent. That means rain during the second innings can disrupt the match.

pakistan squad

Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Salman Agha (captain), Khawaja Nafe (wicketkeeper), Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmed, Sahibzada Farhan, Usman Khan, Salman Mirza, Usman Tariq.

Netherlands squad

Michael Levitt, Max O’Dowd, Bas de Leede, Zach Lyon Cachet, Colin Ackerman, Scott Edwards (wk/c), Noah Cross, Roelof van der Merwe, Logan van Beek, Aryan Dutt, Kyle Klein, Paul van Meekeren, Tim van der Gugten, Saqib Zulfikar, Fred Klaasen.

T20 record at Sinhalese Sports Club

Only two T20 International matches have been played before at the Sinhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground, that too about 15 years ago. Afghanistan vs Canada and Canada vs Ireland matches were held here in the year 2010. That means, this is the first match for both Pakistan and Netherlands on this ground.