The United States of America (USA) defeated Pakistan in the 11th match of the T20 World Cup at Nassau County Stadium in New York on June 6. After winning the toss and inviting Pakistan to bat first, USA bowlers started putting pressure on Pakistan batsmen from the very first ball. As a result, the Pakistan team lost three wickets for just 26 runs in five overs. After playing the entire 20 overs, the Pakistan team was able to score only 159 runs.

While chasing the target, USA was fully in the match, but the course of the match changed in the last four overs. In the end, the match was tied and USA won in the super over. USA captain, Monak Patel revealed that he would have been more satisfied if the team had chased the target in regular time. Patel led the team by scoring 50 runs in just 34 balls.

Monak Patel’s statement after defeating PAK

“When I got out, we were still in the game and I felt we should have finished the match and we should never have gone into the Super Over. But the way we kept our composure and especially scoring 18 runs in the Super Over helped us a lot in defending the target,” Monak Patel was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.

The USA captain further added, “The plan was to win the toss and bowl first and we knew that initially the fast bowlers will get some help in the first half hour and the way we kept them quiet and took crucial wickets in the powerplay, it helped really well and yes, 160 on this wicket with short boundaries on one side, I felt we were always in the match.”

Talking about the match, Pakistan, who lost the toss and came to bat first, scored 159 runs in the stipulated 20 overs on the basis of Babar Azam’s 44 and Shadab Khan’s 40 runs. During this, Nostush Kenjige took the maximum of 3 wickets for USA, while Saurabh Netravalkar got 2 successes.

Chasing this score, captain Monak Patel scored a half-century for the USA team, during which he also made small partnerships with other batsmen, but he could not make the team win. The host team was also able to score only 159 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 20 overs. After this, a super over was held in which USA set a target of 19 runs in front of Pakistan, in response to which Babar Azam’s team could score only 13 runs.