Their T20 World Cup match play against USA co-hosts is going to take place at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York and there are some hot match-ups expect.
The host broadcaster shared a video on Wednesday with US cricketers like Saurabh Netravalkar, captain Monank Patel, Harmeet Singh. Ali Khan and Corey Anderson talking about playing this game against India.
Welcoming Team India to the USA, Saurabh Netravalkar said “I think if we play our best game we can sort of compete against top cricketers. We will take one game at a time and not get overwhelmed by the star-studded players but try as much as possible to bowl against a batsman and bat against a bowler. Try to keep it simple.”
US captain Monank Patel said “you dream about these kinds of things. Suddenly you see yourself with Rohit Sharma on the toss time. It’s unreal. It will be a high-pressure game, we don’t want to focus too much on them right now. We want to play the brand of cricket we want to play against all the teams.”
Harmeet Singh added “Growing up I used to look up for Rohit Sharma. Rohit comes from my school. I’ll take things as they come. With Sanju (Samson), Kuldeep (Yadav) I have played U-19 for India. Axar (Patel) I have played with him. It’ll be fun catching up with them and playing against them.”
US pacer Ali Khan who was born in Pakistan also stirre up controversy by saying. “Virat Kohli has always been one of the favourites and coming up against him and playing against him. It will be really really good . He is very passionate on the field but so am I. On the field if things get heated up then they get heated up.I mean you play fire with fire.He’s right up there. They call him King Kohli for a reason.”
Corey Anderson, who has played international cricket for New Zealand, said “That’s the beauty of playing against India. You know that you’re going to have millions and millions of eyes on you and you know they are against you. There are familiar foes that I have faced and played against. You have done this before and there is evidence to suggest that you can do it again.”
With two victories in as many games, the USA squad has been dominating the T20 World Cup so far. The Indian team hasn’t ever crossed path with any format of US cricket; however it consists of IPL superstars.
Five players on the USA team were born in India. Ronak Patel, Nisarg Patel, Saurabh Netravalkar, Harmeet Singh and Milind Kumar all hail from India but play for USA team now. In his only IPL game he appeared in, Harmeet Singh got rid off Rajasthan Royals’ Ross Taylor then captain by current India head coach Rahul Dravid.
