Pakistan vs Canada in T20 World Cup: PAK needs to win to stay in the tournament; Know the possible playing-11
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Today Pakistan will face Canada in the T20 World Cup. The cricket history of both the teams is 45 years old. However, then both the teams faced each other in the ODI World Cup 1979.
A total of 3 international cricket matches have been played between Pakistan and Canada so far. Pakistan has won all these matches. These include 2 ODIs (1979 and 2011 ODI World Cup) and 1 T20 match. Canada is playing its debut T20 World Cup. Pakistan is the 2009 champion.
Now match details…
Tournament : T20 Men’s World Cup
Match No.22 : Pakistan Vs Canada
date : 11 June
Time : Toss- 7:30 PM, Match start- 8:00 PM.
Place : Nassau County Stadium, New York
The only T20 match between the two teams
The only T20 match between Pakistan and Canada was played in 2008. Then both the teams faced each other in the T20 Canada tournament. In this match, the Pakistan team defeated Canada by 35 runs. Pakistan won the toss and batted first and scored 137 runs in 20 overs losing 7 wickets. In reply, Canada could only score 102 runs in 20 overs losing 9 wickets.
Top players of Pakistan and Canada in T-20 cricket…
Players to watch…
Pakistan
- Mohammed Rizwan – Rizwan has completed 100 matches in T20. He has scored a total of 3243 wickets. This includes a century as well. He played an innings of 31 runs in the low scoring match between India and Pakistan.
- Naseem Shah- In the match against India, Naseem Shah took 3 wickets at an economy of 5.25. He also got a success against America. In T-20, he has 23 wickets in 27 matches.
Canada
- Aaron Johnson- 33-year-old Aaron from Canada scored the most runs in the last series with 124 runs. He has scored 303 runs in 12 matches at a strike rate of 101.33.
- Nicholas Kirton- All-rounder Nicholas Kirton scored 49 runs in 35 balls in the last match against Ireland. He also scored 51 runs against America. He has scored 364 runs in total in 16 matches.
Importance of the match
Pakistan is in Group A along with India, Ireland, Canada and USA. The team has lost both its opening matches and is at the fourth position with no points. The team needs to win today’s match to stay in the tournament, if it loses, the team will be out of the tournament. On the other hand, Canada is at the third position with 2 points after 2 matches, 1 win and 1 loss. It will also have to win at any cost to qualify for the next stage.
Roll of the toss
In the current tournament, batsmen have faced a lot of difficulties on this ground. As was seen in the India-Pakistan match played on Sunday. Pacers are getting a lot of help here. At the same time, spinners can prove to be useful in the middle overs. So far 5 matches have been played in Nassau. Out of these, 3 matches have been won by the chasing team, while only two have been won by the team batting first. India is also included in these. In such a situation, the team winning the toss will prefer to bowl first.
Weather Report
The weather in New York on June 11 will be quite good. It will be cloudy with some sunshine throughout the day. The chance of rain is only 6%. The temperature here on the day of the match can remain between 24 to 17 degrees Celsius.
Possible playing-11 of both the teams
Pakistan: Babar Azam (captain), Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Usman Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Shadab Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah and Mohammad Aamir.
Canada : Saad Bin Zafar (captain), Aaron Johnson, Navneet Dhaliwal, Pargat Singh, Nicholas Kirton, Shreyas Movva (wicketkeeper), Dilpreet Bajwa, Junaid Siddiqui, Dilon Heyliger, Kaleem Sana and Jeremy Gordon.
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