Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Highlights: Usman Tariq stars in Pakistan's dominant show against USA

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: Babar Azam finds the middle of the bat and the ball sails away for a maximum. That was a poor delivery and Azam does not let that go. The ball just sails over the mid-wicket fence for a maximum.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: Sahibzada Farhan takes on the spinner and clears the square leg fence for a maximum. He is keeping the scoreboard moving for Pakistan.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: Pakistan had 56 runs on the board at the end of the powerplay. Since, then they put on just 29 runs in four overs.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: Fifty for Farhan. He has got one end going while the brakes have been applied from the other end.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: Babar Azam had the best chance to get off the blocks. He was given the gift of a free hit and he has taken a single from it.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: The wicket of Salman Ali Agha soon followed after the fall of Ayub. That means Babar Azam is in the crease. However, the run rate has slowed down a bit compared to how they started.

GONE!!! WICKET!!!! Pakistan lose their first wicket and it is Saim Ayub. Guess who picked up the wicket??!!! It is Shadly van Schalkwyk.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: Monank Patel has resorted to his spinner amidst the onslaught from the Pakistan openers. However, Farhan has not changed his style of play. He is going for the boundaries and getting them rather easily.

32 runs off the first 3 overs. WHAT A START!!! Both Farhan and Ayub are looking to take the attack to the bowlers. USA is left looking for respite at present.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: SIX MORE!!!! Saim Ayub is also looking good at the other end. This is a good start for Pakistan. Both the openers are showing brilliant intent and butchering the USA bowlers.

Three boundaries in the second over and Pakistan have raced away to 19. Farhan has provided the initial momentum that they needed.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: Ehsan Adil into the attack in the second over. Notably, he has previously featured for Pakistan. He has played three Tests and six ODIS for Pakistan. His last international appearance was in 2015.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: Good length delivery at the off and middle. Ayub goes down the track and lofts that over the long-on fence for a maximum. Good intent from the young left-hander. Pakistan will be looking to build the momentum from that.

Here we go…..!!!!! Saim Ayub and Shahibzad Farhan will start the innings for Pakistan. Saurabh Netravalkar will start the proceedings with the new ball for USA.

Time for the national anthems of the two teams. First it will be the national anthem of USA followed by Pakistan's national anthem.

Pakistan: Usman Tariq comes in for Salman Mirza

USA: Shayan Jahangir and Ehsan Adil come in place of Ali Khan and Saiteja Mukkamalla.

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Teams:

Pakistan: Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Salman Agha(C), Babar Azam, Usman Khan(w), Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Usman Tariq, Abrar Ahmed

United States of America: Andries Gous(w), Shayan Jahangir, Monank Patel(C), Milind Kumar, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Shubham Ranjane, Harmeet Singh, Mohammad Mohsin, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Ehsan Adil, Saurabh Netravalkar

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: Monank Patel has won the toss and he has decided to field first.

At the SSC, Pakistan don't have a deep T20I diary - in fact, their match here in this T20 World Cup 2026 was essentially their first big T20 reference point at this specific ground, and they won it by three wickets.

Zoom out to Colombo overall, and Pakistan's recent T20I story is stronger: they won six of eight in the city, with the only losses coming in the 2012 T20 World Cup.

After this game, USA finish their Group A league in Chennai - first against Netherlands on February 13, then Namibia on February 15.

Pakistan vs U.S.A. Live Cricket Score: After tonight's game versus USA, Pakistan's Group A run doesn't get any softer: the blockbuster against India lands in Colombo on February 15, before they finish the group against Namibia in Colombo on February 18.

Pakistan vs U.S.A. Live Cricket Score: After tonight's game versus USA, Pakistan's Group A run doesn't get any softer: the blockbuster against India lands in Colombo on February 15, before they finish the group against Namibia in Colombo on February 18.

So far in this tournament, the SSC strip has asked batters to earn it. The opener here saw Netherlands bundled for 147, and Pakistan still needed a late heist to scrape home at 148/7 in 19.3 overs. Then yesterday, Oman were rolled for 103, with Zimbabwe finishing the chase in 13.3 overs. It's looked slightly two-aced with enough bounce for hard lengths meaning cutters and change-ups should be the call of the day.

Pakistan vs U.S.A. T20 World Cup Live Score: In Group A, it is already a little spreadsheet-y. T20 World Cup 2026 standing currently have India on 2, Netherlands on 2, Pakistan on 2, while USA and Namibia are on 0.

So a Pakistan win moves them to 4 points with momentum and breathing room: a defeat drags them back into a mess with tougher pressure games ahead. For the USA, a win doesn't just open their account - it basically restarts their group, putting them right back in the qualification conversation.

The Babar Azam conversation is already louder than Pakistan would like. In the opener vs Netherlands, he managed 14 off 15 - enough to restart the old debate: is the anchor slowing the whole engine? Ricky Ponting went blunt on the ICC Review, saying Babar looks like he's lost a bit of his power and even floated a tactical fix: send him earlier so boundaries come easier.