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The Grade Cricketer

India survive USA scare | India v USA | T20 World Cup

The Grade Cricketer

RARE

Comedy, Sports, Cricket

4.7518 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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USA fight hard and give India a scare but SKY & Co are far too good in the end. 

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0:00.0

And a happy Sunday morning to you. And here we go. What an opening day to this T20 World Cup.

0:06.7

Three games were an upset, looked like it was on the cards. The falloff needed to be studied.

0:11.2

Not being used with Jake Hull's new album, but it was the big boys that stepped up. I'm talking

0:15.3

Pakistan. I'm talking the West Indies. And of course, India last night against the USA.

0:20.1

Got it done with a big win against

0:21.8

the USA.

0:22.5

Now, this show is brought to by Budweiser. This calls for a Bud. And if you're new here to TGC, welcome. Why not click subscribe? Get us over to 350,000 subscribers here on YouTube. Pezz of the World Cup for this year has kicked off a big opening day. um and i know all around

0:37.8

Australia there was um there was a lot of bleary eyes this morning, people taking in, it was a, it was a super Saturday of games. Yes, yes, yes. You know, Pakistan into West Indies, into India. Winter Olympics as well. Winter Olympics as well. Bleary eyes everywhere across Australia. The World Cup's here, thunderous drums, vibe and hype for this global tournament. Fourth World Cup in five years. There was a bloke in a jetpack

0:59.2

in the first game, just doing a low-altitude aviation stunt. Just to kick off Pakistan, Netherlands.

1:05.4

And that really got the juices flowing. Look, I just want to say on India's victory overnight, a little bit of

1:12.7

concern that they haven't absolutely dusted the USA here. But what I want to put forward is that

1:17.7

India have made this mistake before of dusting every team too soon. Everybody knows you need

1:23.7

to start the World Cup slowly. I wouldn't be surprised if they did this deliberately. If they started this World Cup slowly, deliberately, you want to peek later in the tournament. Therefore, it actually is the perfect performance, and they are the perfect team. And they will win this World Cup. It's just a matter of how they do it. How they're going to do it? I actually think it's a 10 out of 10 start for India. We are talking now about ways to skin a cat. How are they going to skin the cat? The cat, I think, is winning the World Cup. Skinning it is the execution of that, winning the games. Okay. How are they going to skin that cat? Now, it was close. What is our coverage this tournament, by the way? How will we skin this cap? I guess we'll find out.

2:01.0

I guess we'll find out.

2:02.7

Now, surprisingly to everybody, we will cover every India game. Yeah. We will cover every India game, as well as the Australia games in the group stages, and then into the Super 8s and every single thing will happen after that. That's right. That's right. Now, we are trying to find ways.

2:16.3

First of all, to get cricket into the Olympics.

2:18.2

So that's what we were looking at here.

2:19.8

We're in India Phamalam saw was 4 for 46 in the power play when Shib and Dubay popped one up the shoot to a short, fine leg there. That was an Olympics base dismissal. Olympic base dismissal. That was an Uncle J script based dismissal. I was also thinking, now, how do we get the India-Pakistan game to happen? Do one of these teams need to lose to then say, and now like, oh, okay, now we have to play this game, you know what I mean? Interesting. So, like, if the USA had beaten India last night, which they didn't, but if they had, would Pakistan be like, I reckon we should play. Yeah. I probably not.

2:52.3

Before Max put one down in the 19-favor, I thought that was the best chance Pakistan had

2:57.5

to play in that game.

2:58.5

Too busy doing vlogs.

2:59.6

Max dropped that catch.

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