In a freakish scenario, a non-playing Pakistan will be more concerned with the result of USA and Ireland Group A match at Lauderhill, Florida on Friday.
A win for USA, who are currently second in this group with four points would end Pakistan’s world cup campaign having earned two out of three matches so far.
Indeed, it will send the co-hosts into the Super Eight from this group alongside India.
Ireland is a competitive team with experienced players but they seem to be disjoined here and that might make their task even more difficult against US which has recently been playing very good T 20 cricket.
They will be watching over their Captain Monank Patel’s fitness level after he missed Wednesday’s match against India due to left shoulder injury.
Aaron Jones led the side as skipper against Rohit Sharma’s men in New York.
According to weather forecast, there is also a high rainfall probability hence even a wash-out could bring an end to Pakistan’s campaign
That would take them to five points and beyond Pakistan’s reach; now they can only garner four points maximum.
Teams (from)
Ireland: Paul Stirling (c), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Andrew Balbirnie, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Neil Rock Harry Tector , Lorcan Tucker Ben White Craig Young
USA: Monank Patel (c), Aaron Jones Andries Gous Corey Anderson Ali Khan Harmeet Singh Jessy Singh Milind Kumar Nisarg Patel Nitish Kumar Noshtush Kenjige Saurabh Nethralvakar Shadley Van Schalkwyk Steven Taylor Shayan Jahangir. Reserve Players: Gajanand Singh Juanoy Drysdale Yasir Mohammad
