India winning start in T20I world cup beat USA: With the help of Suryakumar Yadav’s strong half-century, India defeated America in its first match of T20 World Cup.

New Delhi: Despite the failure of the top order, Team India lost to America by 29 runs in its first match of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026. In the match, the Indian team had scored 161 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. In response, America’s team could score only 132 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. In this way, Team India has become the second team after Pakistan to register victory in Group A.

After winning the toss in the match, America asked Team India to bat first. The start in batting was very bad and opener Abhishek Sharma was out without opening the account. After this, in the last over of the power play, Shadley Van Schalkwyk shocked Team India by dismissing Ishan Kishan, Tilak Verma and Shivam Dubey. However, captain Suryakumar Yadav maintained the lead for Team India from one end, due to which a challenging score could be made.

American team failing miserably in batting

In the match against India, America undoubtedly showed a strong performance in bowling, but its batting flopped miserably. America’s top order batting fell apart, especially in front of the new ball. Mohammad Siraj and Arshdeep Singh shocked America from both ends, from which it could not recover and remained away from the target. In bowling for Team India, Siraj took 4 wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Arshdeep took 2 wickets.

The rest of the work was done by Varun Chakraborty and Akshar Patel in the spin department. Varun took 1 wicket for 24 runs in four overs for Team India. Varun undoubtedly had a success, but this wicket came at a time when Milind Kumar had found his feet for America. Varun got Milind stumped by Ishan Kishan on the score of 34 runs. Apart from Varun, Akshar Patel also spent 24 runs in 4 overs, but had 2 wickets in his account. Akshar took both these wickets in the last over of his spell.

How was Team India’s batting?

The batting of the Indian team against America can be considered very bad. Especially the players in the top order disappointed badly. Leaving aside Suryakumar Yadav’s unbeaten inning of 84 runs, the entire team was seen struggling against the American bowler in this match. Suryakumar hit 10 fours and four sixes in his unbeaten inning of 49 balls. Apart from them, only three batsmen could reach double digits in which Tilak Verma contributed 25 runs and Ishan Kishan contributed 20 runs.

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In the 13th over, India’s score was 77 runs for six wickets and the team was badly shaken but Suryakumar single-handedly handled the innings. South Africa-born Shadley Van Schalkwyk took four wickets for 25 runs in four overs. Barring Suryakumar, India’s famous batting line-up completely failed and at one point the team seemed to be heading towards a very low score. The signal was given right in the beginning when India could not score any runs on the first four balls. The American bowlers did not give the Indian batsmen any chance to play freely.