Toss: USA won the toss and elected to bowl first
The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 kicked off with a Group A clash between USA and Canada. Monank Patel won the toss and elected to bowl first. He believed that the wicket was fresh and his pacers could make the most of early movement.
USA: Steven Taylor, Monank Patel (c), Andries Gous, Aaron Jones, Nitish Kumar, Corey Anderson, Harmeet Singh, Shadley Van Schalkwyk, Jessy Singh, Ali Khan, Saurabh Netravalkar
Canada: Aaron Johnson, Navneet Dhaliwal, Pargat Singh, Nicholas Kirton, Shreyas Movva, Dilpreet Bajwa, Saad Bin Zafar (c), Nikhil Dutta, Dilon Heyliger, Kaleem Sana, Jeremy Gordon