Captain Navneet Dhaliwal’s ballistic knock of 68 off 41 deliveries helped Canada brush aside arch rivals USA by 14 runs. Dhaliwal stayed vigilant during the PowerPlay but later unleashed a flurry of sixes against the inexperienced USA spinners. While Dhaliwal’s heroics, along with timely fireworks from Shreyas Movva and Harsh Thaker, helped them get their post a competitive total of 184, it was the Canada pacers’, especially Jaskaran Singh Buttar’s, uncanny ability to extract reverse swing right from the 12th over that put brakes on USA’s charge towards the finish line.
