USA stuns Pakistan in cricket: Americans pull off historic upset in T20 World Cup super over

CBS Sports ^ | June 6, 2024 | Austin Nivison

[lasereye]

Team USA pulled off one of the greatest upsets in cricket history on Thursday. They defeated powerhouse Pakistan by five runs in the T20 World Cup, shocking the rest of the sport.

The match went to a super over, a tiebreaker in cricket, and Team USA recorded 18 runs. Pakistan needed 19 for the win but were held to just 13 runs. To make the upset even more special, it happened on United States soil in Dallas, Texas.

The T20 World Cup features the 20 best teams in the world, and Team USA now leads Group A following its massive upset of Pakistan. The rest of that group consists of India, Canada, and Ireland.

Team USA will try to keep its magic alive against another daunting opponent in India. That match will take place on June 12 as group play continues.

[PghBaldy]

Me neither. No one ever tells me anything.

[DarrellZero]

All their wickets are belong to us.

[Chode]

A Super Over, also called a one-over eliminator or officially a one over per side eliminator, is a tie-breaking method used in limited-overs cricket matches, where both teams play a single, additional over of six balls to determine the winner of the match.

sounds like Calvin Ball...

[KarlInOhio]

Cricket? You vill eat ze bug!

Oh, the other cricket? Never mind.

[xkaydet65]

I read a story about this game and it was very descriptive of how the US won. And I didn’t understand a word of it.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I don’t understand cricket at all, but I guess this cricket victory thing is better than having some guy dressed up as a woman winning some women’s race or beating a bunch of women in power-lifting.

[Stosh]

Three Singh’s (including back-ups), but only two Patels.

[skr]

You’d almost win, except that four surnames are of European origin.

[Bullish]

Well, ‘at’s a sticky wicket, idn’t it mate?

[Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger]

Partition may have played a role in that...

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I’ve tried in the past to understand cricket but fail every time. Is there a “for dummies” video somewhere that explains the game?

[xp38]

Pre civil war when baseball was in it’s infancy it competed with cricket in America for popularity. The Civil war changed all that with soldiers playing baseball in camps throughout and beseball became the national pastime and cricket evaporated from the public sphere.

[hole_n_one]

Cricket for dummies

[hole_n_one]

Before I watched that video, I knew nothing about cricket.

After having watched, I know about the same as I did before.

[xp38]

It’s sort of like baseball unlimited. Scores are in the hundreds instead of single digits like most baseball games. Instead of 3 outs in an inning you have get the entire team of 11 out before you can switch and bat. There are no foul lines so every hit ball is fair and in play regardless of direction. There is a lot more to it but that’s the bare bones.

[lasereye]

LOL

[SaveFerris]

[I’ve tried in the past to understand cricket but fail every time.]

I think it’s a food that Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum
want you to eat after Joe Biden gets his Nuclear World War III.

[Fiji Hill]

Compton, Calif. has a cricket team—the only cricket team I know of in Southern California.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

you have get the entire team of 11 out before you can switch and bat.

Actually, you have to get 10 of the 11 players out to end the inning because the batting team requires a minimum of two players (batter and runner) to continue the inning.

And cricket fielders don't use gloves!

[Cronos]

Not quite all Indian

There is the token white guy

ok, jokes aside - here they are

Player	Role
Monank Patel (c)	Captain
Aaron Jones	Batsman
Andries Gous	Batsman
Corey Anderson	All-rounder
Ali Khan	Bowler
Harmeet Singh	Bowler
Jessy Singh	Bowler
Milind Kumar	Batsman
Nisarg Patel	All-rounder
Nitish Kumar	Batsman
Noshtush Kenjige	Bowler
Saurabh Nethralvakar	Batsman
Shadley Van Schalkwyk	Bowler
Steven Taylor	All-rounder
Shayan Jahangir	Wicketkeeper

The "white" guys are two

One of whom, Andris Gous is well, African-American

Then you have Aaron Jones originally from Barbados and Corey Anderson from New Zealand

Shadley Van Schalkwyk is also another South African American