The 11th match of the T20 World Cup 2024 was one of the biggest upsets in cricket history so far. In this match, the USA team defeated Pakistan by 5 runs in the Super Over. 30-year-old player Nitish Kumar, who was part of the playing 11, also played an important role in the victory of the American team. When the USA team was chasing a target of 160 runs in this match, it had to score 15 runs to win in the last over of the innings, in which Nitish Kumar, who was batting at that time, played an important role in ending the match in a draw. Nitish played an unbeaten innings of 14 runs facing 14 balls in this match.
Hit a four on the last ball and equalized the match
Talking about the last over of USA’s innings, when they needed 15 runs, Aaron Jones was batting with Nitish Kumar. In which only three runs came on the first 3 balls of this over of Haris Rauf. Jones made the match exciting by hitting a six on the fourth ball of the over, but with one run coming on the fifth ball, now the USA team needed 5 runs to win on the last ball and all eyes were on Nitish Kumar, who had not hit a single boundary in his innings so far. Nitish Kumar made room on Haris Rauf’s low-full-toss ball and played it over mid-off which went straight for a four, due to which the American team managed to tie the match and later they defeated Pakistan by 5 runs in the super over.
First Nitish Kumar is playing with Canada and now with USA team
Talking about Nitish Kumar, he was born on 21 May 1994 in Ontario. Nitish has been a part of the American Under-15 team as well as the Canadian Under-15 and Under-19 team. He made his first step in international cricket with the Canadian team in 2009 when he got a chance to play an ODI match against the Kenyan team. After this, Nitish Kumar decided to play again with the US team. So far he has played 16 ODIs and 24 T20 matches, in which Nitish Kumar has scored 217 runs in ODIs and 532 runs in T20s. In bowling, Nitish has taken 2 wickets in ODIs and 7 wickets in T20s.
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