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: Powerplay is up!!! USA has reached 50 and is on the way to give a tough fight to Pakistan.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: There is the wicket!!!! Gous goes!!!! Nawaz strikes and exactly the wicket Pakistan wanted.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: 20 runs off the first two overs. USA have the momentum going for themselves. Pakistan need a wicket here immediately.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: Launched!!! Dismissed out of presence!!! A poor delivery from Ayub and Jahangir takes full toll of it. USA are moving ahead at a good pace here.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: Now Jahangir creams Afridi for a boundary. This time through the leg side. This is a positive start from the USA batters. They need to hold onto the momentum from here.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: Full ball at the off stump. Andries Gous gets on top of that and punches that through the covers for the first boundary of the innings. It was a brilliant shot full of class from the USA opener.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: USA start their innings. They will look to scale down a huge target of 191 runs. Shayan Jahangir and Andries Gous will start for USA, while it will be Shaheen Shah Afridi to start with the ball for Pakistan.

There is the end of the Pakistan innings. They have put on 190 runs on the board. USA need to chase down 191 to win this game and upset Pakistan once again.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: Schalkwyk picks up a wicket again and this time it is the important wicket of Shadab Khan. He was looking dangerous. His 31 off 12 has set Pakistan on course for a big total.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: Three consecutive boundaries from Shadab Khan and Pakistan are back on track for a 200 plus total.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: Pakistan were slowing down, but Shadab Khan decides to show some intent. Netravalkar's slower one was spotted by Shadab and he got behind the line to slog that away for a maximum.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: IN THE AIR AND TAKEN!!!! Now this is Sahibzada Farhan walking back. He was the adhesive in this innings and his departure might hurt the Pakistan team here.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: A good start thrown away. Babar Azam departs. He was looking all set for a big score but the attempt to clear the fence has him holed out in the deep. Pakistan lose their third wicket.

Pakistan vs USA T20 World Cup Live Score: Babar Azam finds back his touch and shows his pedigree here. From going ta a strike rate of nearly 80, he has now fast forwarded to 42 runs off 29 deliveries.

Pakistan vs USA Live Cricket Score: A six and now a boundary!!! Babar Azam is really rocking here. Another short ball and pulled away for a boundary once more.

As we write, Babar gets another boundary. Just the move on he needed as a batter and also his team needed it too.

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.