Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Highlights: Pakistan avenged their T20 World Cup 2024 loss against the USA by defeating them by 32 runs in the T20 World Cup 2026 Group A match at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on Tuesday.
With this win, Pakistan leapfrogged India to sit at the top of the points table in Group A with four points from two games. India sit second with two points in one game.
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After Pakistan’s decision to play the T20 World Cup match against India on February 15, the pressure is slightly off from the shoulders of the players who will take on USA in Colombo on Tuesday. While every match would have been a do or die encounter for Pakistan if they did not play the India match, that pressure is off which might work wonders for the players.
Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Cricket Score, Full Scorecard
Standing in Pakistan’s way now is USA, a team that had shockingly defeated the Men in Green in the last World Cup, a result that they failed to recover from and were dumped out from the group stage in 2024 despite winning their last 2 matches. A loss against India had also played a part in their elimination.
The USA look to be a more experienced outfit this time around with the Monank Patel-led team giving India a run for their money in their last match. It was only after skipper Suryakumar Yadav’s blistering innings that India managed to post a respectable total of 161/8.
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Match EndedICC Men’s T20 World Cup, 2026 – Match 12
Pakistan
190/9 (20.0)
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USA
158/8 (20.0)
Match Ended ( Match 12 )
Pakistan beat USA by 32 runs
Pakistan’s Faheem Ashraf was dropped by Netherlands’ Max O’Dowd during the T20 World Cup 2026 tournament opener. (PHOTO: AP & Screengrab/JioHotstar)
T20 World Cup: Faheem Ashraf’s value and the dropped catch that could have potentially sent Pakistan home already
In the seconds that the ball ballooned high up in the skies and as Max O’Dowd ran in from long-on, Faheem Ashraf did perhaps what the whole of Pakistan was up to. “I just looked up and prayed to God as hard as I could. Not just from my mouth, my whole body was praying for it to be dropped,” Ashraf would reveal later. Paul van Meekeren, whose double-wicket maiden in the 13th over triggered a sensational batting collapse, had no doubt in his mind that had the catch been taken, the Netherlands would “have potentially sent Pakistan home today”. He won’t end there. “Pakistan didn’t win the game today; we lost the game against ourselves,” van Meekeren would go on to add.
