Wednesday could possibly be an enormous day for cricket in the USA.
Contemporary off their beautiful upset of Pakistan within the T20 Cricket World Cup, the USA cricket workforce takes on India Wednesday of their third match of group play. India is coming off their very own victory over Pakistan on Sunday, which suggests each groups enter as we speak’s match with 4 factors from group play.
Meaning the winner of as we speak’s match will probably be within the driver’s seat relating to advancing out of Group A, and reaching the Tremendous 8, “knockout,” stage.
Right here is how one can watch, the squads, and extra details about as we speak’s match.
Easy methods to watch
Wish to tune in to as we speak’s pivotal match between the USA and India?
You might need to be keen to pay somewhat bit.
The match could be streamed solely on WillowTV, which can be obtainable by way of streaming companies like Fubo and Sling. A month-to-month subscription to Willow, devoted to masking stay cricket matches, prices $9.99.
Nonetheless, in an effort to capitalize on the thrill surrounding the US workforce, Willow has labored out a cope with a number of of its supplier companions to supply a free TV viewing of the U.S.-India match. In accordance with FrontOfficeSports, subscribers of Fubo TV, DirecTV, and Optimum will have the ability to watch the sport with out shopping for a subscription. That can enhance Willow’s attain to fifteen million households for Wednesday’s match.
The match is being held at Nassau County Worldwide Cricket Stadium on Lengthy Island. So in case you are within the space you possibly can hurry and attempt to see the match stay. Tickets can be found on the official T20 World Cup website, in addition to third-party web sites reminiscent of StubHub. At the moment seats on StubHub are round $300 every.
You can even observe together with all of the motion, together with highlights, with ICC.television. Stay commentary will probably be obtainable from BBC on the ICC web site and app.
Squads and key gamers
United States
- Monank Patel (captain)
- Aaron Jones (vice captain)
- Andries Gous
- Corey Anderson
- Ali Khan
- Harmeet Singh
- Jessy Singh
- Milind Kumar
- Nisarg Patel
- Nitish Kumar
- Noshtush Kenjige
- Saurabh Nethralvakar
- Shadley Van Schalkwyk
- Steven Taylor
- Shayan Jahangir
Reserve gamers embody:
- Juanoy Drysdale
- Gajanand Singh
- Yasir Mohammad
India
- Rohit Sharma (captain)
- Hardik Pandya (vice captain)
- Yashasvi Jaiswal
- Virat Kohli
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Rishabh Pant (WK)
- Sanju Samson (WK)
- Shivam Dube
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Axar Patel
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Yuzvendra Chahal
- Arshdeep Singh
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Mohd. Siraj.
Reserve gamers embody:
- Shubman Gill
- Rinku Singh
- Khaleel Ahmed
- Avesh Khan
Aaron Jones, the US vice captain, was large for the workforce of their beautiful upset of Pakistan. Within the “tremendous over” he posted a rating of 19 runs, propelling the US to victory. In your entire match Jones scored 36 runs off 25 balls — together with two fours and sixes — together with a surprising 4 on the ultimate ball to ship the match to the tremendous over. (For reference a “4” is a ball hit to the boundary whereas a “six” is a ball hit over the boundary. Thus a six is roughly equal to a house run in baseball).
As for India, Rohit Sharma is solely put among the best batsmen of his era. He holds a number of worldwide cricket data — together with essentially the most sixes, as his capacity to hit sixes is a power of his — and is essentially the most profitable captain in Indian Premier League historical past, having led his membership workforce (Mumbai Indians) to 5 IPL titles. He was additionally part of the Indian workforce that received the inaugural T20 World Cup again in 2007.
