PAK vs USA: After India, now 37 year old bowler made Pakistan cry tears of blood; Took 8 wickets in just 2 matches

PAK vs USA: The 12th match of T20 World Cup 2026 was played between Pakistan and USA. Which Pakistan won by 32 runs. With defeating USA, this is Pakistan’s second consecutive victory in this World Cup.

In this match, the 37 year old player from USA bowled in such a way that he gave away sixes to the Pakistani batsmen. This player had troubled Team India by bowling powerfully against India also. This player is none other than fast bowler Shadley Van Schalkwyk.

Shadley Van Schalkwyk took 8 wickets

Shadley Van Schalkwyk took three wickets in one over in the match against India and four wickets in the entire match. He has repeated this feat in the match against Pakistan also. The interesting thing is that both times he did this feat in the sixth over of the innings. The 37-year-old fast bowler has bowled 8 overs so far in this tournament and has taken 8 wickets for just 50 runs.

Shalkvik’s blast in PAK vs USA match

In the match against Pakistan, Shadley Van Schalkwyk took 4 wickets for 25 runs in a spell of 4 overs. The right-arm pacer dismissed Sam Ayub, Pakistan captain Salman Aga, Shadab Khan and Faheem Ashraf. He has become the bowler taking the highest wickets so far in this tournament. At the same time, in this match he gave his best performance in T20 International by taking 4 wickets for 25 runs.

PAK vs USA match status

Talking about the match, Pakistan, batting first, scored 190 runs in 20 overs, in response the American team could score only 158 runs. Pakistan’s opener Sam Ayub could score only 19 runs. Sahibzada Farhan batted brilliantly and scored 73 runs in 41 balls.

PAK vs USA: Pakistan gave target of 191

Captain Salman Aga failed, Babar Azam contributed 46 runs in 32 balls. In the middle overs, Shadab Khan played a quick inning of 30 runs in 12 balls, on the basis of which Pakistan reached 190 runs. After the batsmen of Pakistan, the bowlers also troubled the American team.

PAK vs USA: Pakistani spinners showed their strength

Shaheen Afridi took one wicket but gave away 42 runs. However, the spinners performed well. Mystery spinner Usman Tariq took 3 wickets for 27 runs. Shadab Khan got 2 successes. Nawaz and Abrar got 1-1 wicket. Sahibzada Farhan, who scored the highest score of 73 runs, received the Player of the Match award.