USA 197-3 beat Canada 194-5 by seven wickets in Dallas, Texas as Jones (94*) and Gous (65) guided co-hosts to win with 131-run stand
Aaron Jones and Andries Gous steered the USA towards a seven-wicket victory over Canada in the T20 World Cup opener in Grand Prairie, Dallas.Aaron Jones and Andries Gous steered the USA towards a seven-wicket victory over Canada in the T20 World Cup opener in Grand Prairie, Dallas.the USA beat Canada by seven wickets in the opening match of the T20 World Cup
A crowd of around 5,000 were treated to a brilliantly freewheeling innings by the USA’s Aaron Jones, a pocket-rocket batsman who was born in Queens, and raised in Barbados. Jones clobbered 10 sixes, one of them clean out of the ground, in an undefeated innings of 94 off just 40 balls.It was an achievement to get the match on at all. They had a mini tornado rip through here on the Tuesday before the game.
The people who did turn up enjoyed a real treat. The USA were heavy favourites given that they had recently won a series against Canada 4-0, and another against Bangladesh 2-1, but their bowlers seemed to be suffering from a few first-night nerves. Johnson was caught at long-off, but his opening partner, Navneet Dhaliwhal, pressed on. He walloped the first six of the tournament off the former India U19 player Harmeet Singh.
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