The USA Cricket team made history in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 by advancing to the Super 8 stage, which has rallied Americans to get behind their national team.
The Major League Cricket, a US-based T20 league, congratulated the team for making it to the Super 8 stage.
Major League Cricket players who are part of Team USA are Ali Khan, Nitish Kumar, Shadley Van Schalkwyk (Los Angeles Knight Riders), Steven Taylor, Nosthush Kenjige, Monank Patel, and Shayan Jahangir (MI New York), Corey Anderson (San Francisco Unicorns), Harmeet Singh, (Seattle Orcas), Milind Kumar (Texas Super Kings) Andries Gous, Saurabh Netravalkar and Yasir Mohammad (Washington Freedom).
However, team USA began their campaign by defeating Canada in the opening game. They won against Pakistan in a super-over, which put the team in a position to finish second in Group A of the marquee event. They were helped as their game against Ireland was abandoned due to rain.
With the USA set to face South Africa, West Indies, and England in Group 2 of the Super 8 round, Major League Cricket’s Chief Executive Vijay Srinivasan, said the advancement of the team to the next level of the home World Cup is an achievement.
‘Congratulations to Team USA, who, in their first-ever World Cup, gave us three matches of cricket against the world’s best teams and earned their position in the Super 8. This is a historic moment for the sport, especially for our players from Major League Cricket who are representing the USA. We hope that this inspires boys and girls around the country to pick up a bat and ball this summer, and encourages sports fans to attend an MLC game or tune into the broadcast’, Srinivasan said as quoted by the MLC release.
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