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CAN vs USA 5th T20, CAN vs USA 2024

USA

169-619.4

United States won by 4 wickets 🏆

CAN

20.0168-5

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So we hope you enjoyed our coverage of this thrilling final T20I between USA and Canada. The US have comprehensively triumphed in the series 4-0 and are in good stead before the World Cup. It is time for me Sourya Chowdhury to bid you goodnight on behalf of me and my fellow commentator Deepak Prakash and our scorer/statistician Raju Khariya. See you soon.

Saurabh Netravalkar has surpassed Monank Patel's record by playing the most T20Is (24) for USA.

Corey Anderson and Nitish Kumar's partnership of 104 runs stands as the highest for the 4th wicket in T20Is for USA.

USA skipper, Monank Patel, receives the trophy and heads towards his teammates for the celebration and photographs.

Monank Patel (USA captain): "It was a completely team effort. The batters chipped in throughout, our spinners also contributed. We can do well at the World Cup because our top-order is in form and our allrounders are also doing well. We will be well prepared before the world cup as we will also play against Bangladesh before. The boys are gelling really well."

Harmeet Singh (Player of the Series): "I don't keep much expectations, but that was the goal. The most important thing is I back myself and even at practice, I do practice a lot of, you know, hitting yorkers or back-of-the-hand bowling and all of that. So trying to get more uncomfortable at practice, so I think that's helped me a lot. The good thing is I'm only playing white-ball cricket, so I don't have to worry much about, you know, focusing on defense or, you know, there's no red-ball cricket here. So the mindset is very clear and if the ball is there, it needs to go. So I think that way, I've kept myself very clear in my head."

Player of the Series: Harmeet Singh

Nitish Kumar (Player of the Match): Yeah it was a weird feeling to play against my old team. I have some great buddies there and have good relations with them. We targeted the area where there was breeze. We tried to minimise the dot ball. I am just starting to gel with the US guys having played with them for a long time. Was lucky to survive the drop catch but it is all part of the game.

Player of the Match: Nitish R Kumar

Saad Bin Zafar (Canada Captain): "I think USA outplayed us in all three departments. We have a lot of areas for improvement. I think I'm struggling a bit with an inexperienced bowling attack. We haven't had good starts in the power plays, in the bowling, and also in the depth overs. So that's the area. We have about a month and a half to go in the World Cup, so I think those are the key areas we need to improve on and hopefully come back strong in the World Cup. As batters, we've been okay overall, but sometimes we've lost wickets in groups. Some players have performed well, and it's important to stay consistent. We're facing USA in the first World Cup game, and we're really excited. We just need to step up a bit."

Time for the post-match presentation....

19.5 Joshi to N Patel

WD WIDE! That's it. USA win the 5-match series 4-0, with one game being washed out due to the wet outfield. Short of a length down the leg. Nisarg swivels around for a pull but misses. The umpire signals it wide and USA win by 4 wickets.

1 needed off 2 balls.

19.4 Joshi to H Singh

1 The scores are level. Full-length around off. Harmeet makes room and drives it to cover, who tumbles to his right and stops it but fails to stop a single.

2 needed off 3 balls.

19.3 Joshi to N Patel

1 Low full toss on the pads. Nisarg flicks it to deep backward square leg for a single.

19.2 Joshi to N Patel

4 FOUR! Beautifully played! Full-length on the middle stump line. Nisarg makes room to access the off-side and carves it through the extra cover region for a boundary.