{"id":65710,"date":"2026-02-07T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/suryakumars-brilliant-blitz-denies-usa-seismic-shock-in-indias-t20-world-cup-opener\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:14:37","slug":"suryakumars-brilliant-blitz-denies-usa-seismic-shock-in-indias-t20-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/suryakumars-brilliant-blitz-denies-usa-seismic-shock-in-indias-t20-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Suryakumar\u2019s brilliant blitz denies USA seismic shock in India\u2019s T20 World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>India, 161-9, bt USA, 132-8, by 29 runs<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Suryakumar\u2019s 84 from 49 balls proves the difference<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was, in the end, no shock \u2013 but there was not a lot of awe either. India\u2019s form over the last two years has made them the most feared side in world cricket but for a while as they got their World Cup campaign under way the only dread was being experienced by their own fans as the USA threatened a humiliating upset. But for some missed chances, a hugely unfortunate injury and the brilliance of Suryakumar Yadav it might well have happened.<\/p>\n<p>But as it was Suryakumar\u2019s late acceleration took him to 84 off 49 and his team to 161 for nine, the USA reply started with three early wickets \u2013 the absence of Jasprit Bumrah, ruled out by illness, doing little to dull India\u2019s cutting edge \u2013 and the margin in the end was 29.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/07\/india-usa-t20-world-cup-cricket-suryakumar-yadav\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India, 161-9, bt USA, 132-8, by 29 runs Suryakumar\u2019s 84 from 49 balls proves the difference There was, in the end, no shock \u2013 but there was not a lot of awe either. India\u2019s form over the last two years has made them the most feared side in world cricket but for a while as &#8230; <a title=\"Suryakumar\u2019s brilliant blitz denies USA seismic shock in India\u2019s T20 World Cup opener\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/suryakumars-brilliant-blitz-denies-usa-seismic-shock-in-indias-t20-world-cup-opener\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Suryakumar\u2019s brilliant blitz denies USA seismic shock in India\u2019s T20 World Cup opener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}