T20 World Cup 2026: Pakistan defeated USA, these records were made

Updated: 10-02-2026, 05.09 PM

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In the 12th match of T-20 World Cup 2026, Pakistan cricket team registered its second win by defeating USA cricket team by 32 runs. In the match held at Sinhalese Sports Club, Pakistan scored 190/9 with the help of Sahibzada Farhan’s half-century (73). In reply, the USA team could only score 158/8 after playing the entire over. Let’s take a look at the records made in this match.

Statement of account

Pakistan won the match easily

Sam Ayub (19) and Salman Aga (1) were out early from Pakistan. Opener Sahibzada scored 73 runs. Apart from them, Babar Azam (46) and Shadab Khan (30) made useful contributions and took the team to a challenging score. In reply, Shayan Jahangir from USA performed impressively scoring 49 runs and Shubham Ranjane scored 51 runs. Apart from these, other batsmen disappointed and the team remained away from the target.

Sahibzada Farhan

Sahibzada Farhan scored the 9th half-century of his T-20 international career.

Farhan hit 3 excellent fours in the second over of the innings. He batted aggressively against the USA bowlers in the powerplay overs. He completed his half-century in 27 balls. This opening batsman scored 73 runs facing 41 balls. In his innings he hit 6 fours and 5 sixes. His innings was ended by Harmeet Singh. This was Farhan’s first half-century innings in the T20 World Cup.

Sahibzada Farhan completes 1,000 T-20 international runs

Farhan started his T20 international career in 2018 with a match against the Australia cricket team. So far, he has scored 1,042 runs in 41 innings of 41 matches at an average of 26.05 and strike rate of 132.23. His highest score in this format has been 80* runs. He became the 10th batsman for Pakistan to cross the 1,000-run mark in T-20 Internationals.

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Shadley Van Schalkwyk joins this list

USA fast bowler Shadley Van Schalkwyk continued his amazing performance. He took 4 wickets while giving 25 runs in 4 overs against Pakistan. This was the second consecutive match in which he took 4 wickets. Earlier, he had also taken 4 wickets while giving 25 runs against India.
cricinfo According to , Shalkvik became the second bowler to take 4 wickets in 2 consecutive matches in the T-20 World Cup. Before him, Fazalhaq Farooqui had done this.