USA vs Canada: T20 World Cup started with a bang, this 180 year old picture made headlines on social media

 

 USA vs CANADA World's First International Match 1844: The bugle of T20 World Cup (T20 World Cup 2024) has been blown in America. In the first match of the tournament, USA defeated Canada one-sidedly by 7 wickets. The host US chased the target of 195 runs in 17.4 overs. For USA, Aaron Jones played a stormy innings of 94 runs in 40 balls and gave his team a historic victory. The cricket history of America and Canada is very old. The first unofficial international match between the two teams was played 180 years ago in 1844, where Canada won by 23 runs. This match was also played at St. George's Club Ground in New York.

180 years ago the first international match was played between USA and Canada

In this historic match which went on from 24th September to 26th September, Canada batted first and scored just 82 runs in the first innings. Sam Wright took 5 wickets for USA and Henry Groom took 3 wickets. Three batsmen contributed 12 runs each for Canada. In its first innings, USA was all out for just 64 runs and Canada gained a crucial lead of 18 runs in the first innings. In the second innings also, Canada could not do anything amazing and the whole team was all out for 63 runs. Henry Groom took 5 wickets for USA this time while opener David Winkworth scored the highest 14 runs for Canada. While chasing the target of 82 runs, the US team could once again score only 58 runs and lost the match by 23 runs. Opener James Turner scored 14 runs for USA and George Sharp took 6 wickets for Canada.

Canada was blown away by Aaron Jones' storm, USA won the historic match

In the first match of the T20 World Cup played in Dallas, host USA defeated Canada by 7 wickets one-sidedly. Batting first in this match, the Canadian team scored a huge score of 194 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. In reply, USA achieved this target in 17.4 overs by losing only 3 wickets. This is the biggest run chase by USA in the history of T20 International. Aaron Jones played a stormy innings of 94 runs.