ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Super 8 fixture will energize more as two host countries will face each other it’s USA and West Indies. Both teams will face each other for the first time so it’s going to be a massive encounter. Both have lost their first match of Super 8 so it’s crucial for both to grab those 2 points.
Journey till now: USA and West Indies
USA playing their first ever ICC tournament and straightly qualifies for Super 8. Their confidence and powerful approach brought them to these stage. USA lost just to India in group stage they defeated to Pakistan and Canada which was the greatest upset of this World Cup, against Ireland match got washed out. In their first match against South Africa almost they pulled off a heist but South Africa snatched that victory and lost the match by 18 runs. USA still have that potential to give their statement through their performance if they beats West Indies.
Hosts West Indies were in red hot form and finished top of the table on group stage, all were looking good but they faced a shocking defeat against England and also their winning streak comes to an end. West Indies have great amount of potential to tackle the situation but they can’t do against England. All players are in form but need to play the situation if they fails to do that then the may lose the chance of winning. Nicholas Pooran will be on radar so he may harm the USA bowlers.
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- The USA are looking to become the first non Full Member to make the semi-finals of an ICC event since Kenya reached that stage in 2003.
- Obed McCoy and Akeal Hosein are both closing in on wicket-taking milestones, one and two wickets away respectively from 50 T20I scalps.
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He has been one of T20 cricket’s most valuable players for the best part of the last decade, but Andre Russell has been kept uncharacteristically quiet for the best part of this World Cup. A pair of unbeaten cameos against PNG and Uganda are about as good as it’s good for him with the bat, and though he continues to chip in with wickets, it is that explosiveness at the death West Indies really need him for. Part of it simply has to do with the batters higher up making sure he wasn’t required, but on the two occasions he was – against New Zealand and England – he fell cheaply. As a veteran of both of West Indies’ triumphant World Cup campaigns, he will know he’s expected to be a lot more influential for his side in the second half of this tournament if they are to go the distance again.
Steven Taylor’s rise appeared to be proof that cricket in America was capable of attracting US-born athletes to this sport. A precocious rising star through his teenage years, he has been involved with American cricket for well over a decade. This World Cup should have been his crowning glory, but while Aaron Jones, Andries Gous and Saurabh Netravalkar have shone, Taylor has struggled to convert starts into substance at the top of the order. Born to Jamaican parents, he has history with the West Indies, and was once stripped of the US captaincy after he chose to play the CPL over a USA World Cup qualifier. He now comes up against the side he once declared an intention to play for, and the stakes could hardly be higher.
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