In a turf remake of the Miracle on Ice, the 18th-ranked United States team beat one of the perennial powerhouses in world cricket, Pakistan, in an International Cricket Council’s T20 World Cup match played in Dallas on Thursday, CNN reports.
The US is ranked immediately behind Nepal and ahead of Oman in the world standings, while sixth-ranked Pakistan holds the ICC Champions Trophy. T20 is an abbreviated form of a traditional cricket match, which can sometimes carry on for days. In T20, each team gets 120 pitches, in six-pitch rounds, to score as many runs as possible, with each side taking all their turns at bat at once.
In Thursday’s match, the US’s Nitish Kuma tied the game on the very last pitch forcing a Super-Over where each team got six pitches to score as many runs as possible. In the overtime, the US outscored Pakistan 18-13. The US and the West Indies are jointly hosting 2024 T20 World Cup.