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Canada ready for ‘tough competition’
Meanwhile, Canada’s captain Saad bin Zafar believes his team are not under pressure and are equally excited to express themselves.
“Everybody’s itching to go, everybody’s in the performance mood,” Zafar told reporters on the eve of the match.
USA have had an upper hand over Canada in recent meetings and Zafar wants his team to come out on top in the tournament opener.
“We are rivals, we tend to play against each other a lot,” he said.
“There are a lot of friendships between the two countries as well at the same time,” Zafar added.
“And right now, because it’s a World Cup, it’s a grand stage, both countries want to have the best of them over their opponent.
“I believe we’re going to have a really good and tough competition and both teams will entertain the crowd.”
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Head to head
The North American rivals have faced each other seven times in T20 matches, where USA have come on top on five occasions and Canada have won twice.
Four of these wins came in their recent five-match T20 series, which saw one match abandoned due to bad weather.
Form
USA enter the T20 World Cup on the back of a stunning 2-1 series win over Bangladesh, who were packed with big names such as Shakib al-Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman and captain Najmul Hossain Shanto.
Canada’s last T20 outing was against USA in the five-match series that they lost 4-0 and will look to set things right.
USA: L W W W W
Canada: L L A L L
(Al Jazeera)
USA team news
The co-hosts go into the match riding on the wave of the success of their series win and will not be looking to tinker with the XI that brought them the 2-1 series win.
USA squad: Monank Patel (captain), Shayan Jahangir, Andries Gous, Nitish Kumar, Steven Taylor, Harmeet Singh, Corey Anderson, Milind Kumar, Nisarg Patel, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Ali Khan, Jessy Singh, Saurabh Netravalkar, Nosthush Kenjige.
Canada team news
Having only completed one of their two pre-tournament warm-up matches, Canada will hope the side that beat Nepal last week will put on an improved performance against their North American neighbours and get off to a winning start.
Canada squad: Saad bin Zafar (captain), Navneet Dhaliwal, Aaron Johnson, Ravinderpal Singh, Kanwarpal Tathgur, Shreyas Movva, Dilon Heyliger, Dilpreet Bajwa, Harsh Thaker, Jeremy Gordon, Junaid Siddiqui, Kaleem Sana, Nicholas Kirton, Pargat Singh, Rayyan Khan Pathan.
(Al Jazeera)
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