Pakistan out of T20 World Cup after USA-Ireland match postponed due to rain

• The USA has previously played three matches.
• The Americans defeated Pakistan last week.
• Pakistan is now a standout from the T20 World Cup.
  

Pakistan is ruled out of the T20 World Cup 2024 on Friday after the United States vs Ireland match was called off due to a wet pitch at Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill, Florida.

The USA has earlier played three matches, starting the biggest T20 tournament in history with a win against Canada. The Americans also beat Pakistan last week.

The ground court spent hours on Friday trying to dry out the soggy pitch, but shortly after the umpires inspected the conditions, a massive downpour ended all hope.

Ireland played two matches during the tournament. Their first match was against India and then against Canada but they lost both the matches.

The USA defeated Canada and Pakistan in their first two games, while the Men in Green were defeated by the Americans and the Indians.

With the match now abandoned without a ball being played, both the USA and Ireland were awarded a point each.

Now the USA made their way to the Super 8 of the World Cup with five points on their card.

India have also qualified from Group A, while Pakistan, Ireland and Canada will head home after completing their group matches.

The Green Shirts have one more match to play against Ireland but that would be a dead rubber as they are now out of T20 cricket’s biggest tournament.

In the last two editions, Pakistan reached the semi-final in 2021 where they lost to Australia, while in 2022, despite a poor start, the Green Shirts went all the way to the final but lost to England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Pakistan have played in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup six times – 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2021 and 2022 – the most of any team and this will be their first group stage exit since 2016 and just their third overall .

Platoons:

USA: Shayan Jahangir, Steven Taylor, Andries Gous, Aaron Jones, Nitish Kumar, Corey Anderson, Harmeet Singh, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Jasdeep Singh, Saurabh Netravalkar, Ali Khan, Nosthush Kenjige, Monank Patel (c), Nisarg Kumar Mi,

Ireland: Andrew Balbirnie, Paul Stirling (c), Lorcan Tucker, Harry Tector, Curtis Campher, George Dockrell, Gareth Delany, Mark Adair, Barry McCarthy, Joshua Little, Craig Young, Benjamin White, Neil Rock, Graham Hume, Ross Adair

More to come…