The 22nd match of the T20 World Cup 2024 being held in West Indies and USA was played between Pakistan and Canada (Pakistan vs Canada) on 11 June at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York.

In this match Pakistan defeated Canada by 7 wickets, but in the match Canada’s opening batsman Aaron Johnson (Aaron Johnson) was seen fighting alone. He batted brilliantly in the match and scored a brilliant half-century of 52 runs in 44 balls. But the rest of the batsmen of his team were able to add only 54 runs together.

Canada set a target of 107 runs for Pakistan to win, which Pakistan easily achieved by losing 3 wickets. But now Johnson’s innings against a Test team like Pakistan is being praised a lot. Let us know through this article who is Aaron Johnson, who scored the only half century from Canada in the match against Pakistan

Special things about Aaron Johnson

Let us tell you that the 33-year-old player was born in Jamaica, but his parents shifted to McMurray, Alta. in Johnson’s teens. Before playing for the Canadian team, Johnson has also played cricket for British Columbia. He is also seen playing in the Global T20 League.

However, Johnson gained fame when he scored a century of 109 runs in a T20 match against Oman, which is the best T20 score by any Canadian player. Johnson started playing for the Canadian cricket team in the year 2022.

He has played a total of 19 T20 matches so far, in which he has scored a total of 802 runs at an average of 47.18 and a strike rate of 160.08. Apart from this, during the 2023 season, he became the first Canadian cricketer to have the record of scoring the most centuries.

Also, Johnson is the first Canadian cricketer to score more than 500 runs in T20 cricket. On the basis of his brilliant batting, he has been successful in making it to the top 100 in the ICC T20 rankings.