Don’t always get a chance to win games against such big teams: Harmeet Singh
Before the start of the T20 World Cup, USA has issued a warning to other teams by defeating Bangladesh not to take them lightly. on 21 may houston USA achieved a spectacular victory by defeating Bangladesh by five wickets in the first T20 match of the three-match series played in . This is the second time that USA defeated a full member team in a T20 match. Harmeet Singh won the Player of the Match award by scoring unbeaten 33 runs in just 13 balls.
Bangladesh was invited to bat first and scored 153 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. For the host team, Tauheed Hridoy scored the highest score of 58 runs, while Mahmudullah played an inning of 31 runs in 22 balls. For USA, Steven Taylor took 2 wickets for 9 runs.
In response, USA, while chasing the target, was in trouble at one time after losing 5 wickets for 94 runs. But Harmeet Singh and Corey Anderson made an unbroken partnership of 62 runs and led the team to victory. Corey Anderson scored unbeaten 34 runs in 25 balls.
We don’t always get a chance to win a game against such a big team – Harmeet Singh
After the match, Harmeet was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo, you don’t always get a chance to win the game every day against such a big team. The way the boys are training, it is an individual effort from everyone. It means a lot for us to perform well against Bangladesh.
He said, we are not going to give any walkover. I believe that we have immense potential. We have many match-winning players in our team. This gives us an edge. Now we also bat well (like anyone else).
Harmeet further said, we were confident that Fitz would bowl against the wind, but when I saw him bowling from the other end, in the direction of the wind, I felt that we had a chance to bowl 20 runs from the other side. I think either they took us for granted, or I don’t know. They did not have bowlers to bowl from the other side.
He finally said, I told the boys before the match that on paper Bangladesh is a good team, but if we lose without fighting, it will not send a good message. We know the wicket because it is our home condition. We know everything about this ground. This is a T20 format. After a few blows we can corner them and end the match.