Ireland vs United States Scorecard, Match 30, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Jun 14 2024, Fri - 08:00 PM (IST)
Match 30, - Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground
United States Ireland Match abandoned without a ball bowled
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Jun 14 2024, Fri - 08:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | USA |
| City: | Lauderhill |
| Venue: | Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground |
| Toss: | Toss yet to happen |
| United States Playing XI: | - |
| Ireland Playing XI: | - |
- This will be the third men’s T20I between USA and Ireland; Ireland won their most recent meeting by nine runs (23 December 2021) after USA won their inaugural match in the format by 26 runs (22 December 2021).
- USA lost their most recent men’s T20I by seven wickets (12 June 2024 v India); they had lost only one of their nine matches in the format prior to that game (W7 T1); they will be looking to avoid back-to-back defeats in the format for the first time since July 2022.
- Ireland have lost each of their last two men’s T20Is, as many as they lost across their six matches in the format prior to that span (W4 L2); the last time they recorded a longer losing run in the format was a four-match span from July to December in 2023.
- USA have recorded a different result in each of their three ICC Men’s T20 World Cup matches (W1 T1 L1); they lost their most recent match in the tournament (12 June 2024 v India) after batting first on the day – each of their two games in the tournament they have avoided defeat have come bowling first.
- Ireland have won only one of their last six ICC Men’s T20 World Cup matches (L5) – a five-run victory against England (26 October 2022); they have lost each of their four games in the tournament since then – the last and only time they recorded a longer losing run in the tournament was a six-match span from June 2009 to September 2012.
- USA are winless in their last three men’s T20Is against Test playing countries (T1 L2); they had won three of all their five such fixtures in the format prior to that span (L2).
- Andy Balbirnie (109) is one away from equaling Kevin O’Brien (110) for the third most appearances for Ireland in men’s T20Is; his T20I batting average in 2024 (27.1) is his second best in a calendar year (33.4 in 2019).
- Mark Adair (11) is one away from surpassing Alex Cusack (11) for the outright third most wickets for Ireland in ICC Men’s T20 World Cup history; he’s taken at least one wicket in each of his 11 T20I bowling innings overall in 2024, recording 19 wickets in total across that span at an average of 17.9.
- George Dockrell (18) is one away from surpassing Kevin O’Brien (18) for the outright second most appearances for Ireland at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup; he’s been dismissed only once in his last four T20I batting innings overall (4*, 53*, 3, 30*).
- Four players have scored 200+ runs for USA in men’s T20Is in 2024 (Andries Gous – 263, Monank Patel – 240, Aaron Jones – 236, Steven Taylor – 210); this had only been achieved twice for USA prior to this year (Steven Taylor – 265 in 2019 and Steven Taylor – 233 in 2022).