Team India vs USA: The ICC T20 World Cup 2026 is set to begin on February 7th. In their first match of the tournament, Team India will face the United States national cricket team. The USA team has already arrived in India. Today, the USA team played a practice match against India A and suffered a 38-run defeat.
India A batted first and scored 238 runs, then bowled out the USA team for just 200 runs. N Jagadeesan scored a century for the Indian team in this match.
India A scored 238 runs, losing only 3 wickets
The USA team won the toss and elected to bowl first. Priyansh Arya and N Jagadeesan opened the innings for India, and they put on a 43-run partnership for the first wicket. Priyansh Arya scored 28 runs off 13 balls. Following this, Narayan Jagadeesan and Tilak Varma forged a 113-run partnership for the second wicket. India lost their second wicket in the form of Tilak Varma, who scored 38 runs off 24 balls, including 3 fours and 2 sixes.
The third wicket partnership was between N Jagadeesan and captain Ayush Badoni, who added 63 runs together. Narayan Jagadeesan’s wicket fell on the last ball of the 19th over, but by then he had already completed his century. N Jagadeesan scored 104 runs off 55 balls, hitting 11 fours and 4 sixes.
Ayush Badoni remained unbeaten, scoring 60 runs off 26 balls with 6 fours and 4 sixes. Riyan Parag also remained unbeaten with 2 runs off 2 balls. Thanks to these contributions, the Indian team scored 238 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 20 overs, setting a target of 239 runs for the USA team.
Team India’s bowlers dismantled the USA batting lineup like a deck of cards.
The USA team fought hard against the Indian bowlers until the end, but they couldn’t cross the finish line. Apart from a few batsmen, the rest of the USA team’s performance was not particularly impressive. Andries Gous was the top scorer for the USA, playing a brilliant innings of 44 runs off 31 balls, including 5 fours and 1 six.
Indian-origin batsman Krishna Murthy also played a quick-fire innings, scoring 41 runs off 18 balls. Shubham Ranjane scored 28, Harmeet Singh 25, and Mohammad Mohsin 21. Despite fighting until the end and reaching the 200-run mark, the USA team was all out in 19.4 overs. India won the match by 38 runs.
For India, Ravi Bishnoi took 3 wickets, Khaleel Ahmed and Naman Dhir took 2 wickets each, while Ayush Sharma, Tilak Varma, and captain Ayush Badoni took one wicket each.
