T20 World Cup: Captain Suryakumar Yadav saves India's blushes against USA

After being inserted to bat at the toss, the home side were off to a reasonable start when they reached 45-1 in the sixth over.

The wheels fell off spectacularly though as USA seamer Shadley van Schalkwyk took three wickets in an over as India collapsed to 77-6 in the 13th over.

Suryakumar, who came in to bat at number 4, watched as wickets tumbled at the other end but held things together before exploding to be unbeaten on 84 from 49 balls to carry his team to a total of 161-9.

The skipper struck 10 fours and four sixes in his innings while the only other contributions of note came from Tilak Varma (25) and Ishan Kishan (20).

Van Schalkwyk eventually finished with figures of 4-25 in his four overs while Harmeet Singh took 2-26 as they restricted the powerful home team.

The visitors were then in early trouble in the run-chase as they slipped to 13-3 inside four overs.

Milind Kumar (34) and Sanjay Krishnamurthi (37) resurrected the innings somewhat with a 58-run partnership that was eventually broken by spinner Varun Chakravarthy (1-24).

The USA never quite kept up wih the required-rate and, despite a a defiant 37 from 22 balls from Shubham Ranjane, could only reach 132-8 in their 20 overs.