Left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh put up a spectacular bowling display against USA in group stage clash against co-hosts USA at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York. Arshdeep bagged four wickets for just nine runs in his quota of four overs. He broke Ravichandran Ashwin’s record of best bowling figures for India in T20 World Cups.
Ashwin bagged four wickets against Australia conceding just 11 runs from 3.2 overs against Australia in T20 World Cup 2014. The veteran off-spinner helped India bowl out Australia for 86 and win the match by a big margin of 73 runs in Mirpur.
Arshdeep effective with new and old ball
Arshdeep got the wicket of Shayan Jahangir with the first ball of the match. He became the second Indian bowler after Bhuvneshwar Kumar to achieve this feat in T20 World Cups. In the same over, he dismissed Andries Gous as well. He conceded just four runs in two overs he bowled in powerplay overs.
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He was brought back into the attack in the 15th over. He ended Nitish Kumar's stay at the crease. He scored 27 runs from 23 before getting caught just in front of the boundary rope by Mohammed Siraj. He bowled the 18th over and got the better of Harmeet Singh with a short ball.
Arshdeep's economical four-fer helped India bowl out USA for 110/8 after Indian skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to field first.
Nitish not happy with the target set
Nitish who top-scored for USA was not happy with the target set by them. He felt that the hosts were 20 runs shy of an ideal score on the surface.
“I think we're disappointed to get this score from where we were (at one stage of our innings), we are 20 runs short, but we've the runs on the board, the wicket isn't the easiest and we'll look to defend. The crowd is always behind us and it's nice to play in front of them,” Nitish said during the innings break.
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