Canada hurt by sloppy fielding

Canada dropped a couple of catches and missed an early run-out opportunity from American captain Monank Patel that cost them dearly.

With the USA on 7/0 after 1.2 overs, Steven Taylor defended an Uday Bhagwan delivery from around the wicket in front of him. Thinking he had a chance to sneak a single, Patel scampered down the wicket and Taylor showed no interest.

Bhagwan raced to the ball and collected it with Patel three-quarters of the way down the pitch, but missed the wicket at the non-striker's end with the throw, while Pargat Singh failed to collect it cleanly at the bowler's end with his retreat.

In the fourth over, Aaron Johnson dropped a straightforward chance at slip off the bowling of Harsh Thaker to give Patel his second life of the innings on 22 off nine deliveries and the score was 38/0 from 3.3 overs. Patel's third life came in the very next over, slashing hard at a short and wide delivery from Bhagwan that Dhaliwal couldn't hold despite a valiant dive to his left at short third man. Instead of a wicket, the scoreboard reflected a fourth successive boundary in the over to take the USA to 59/0 from five overs.

Despite the poor fielding, it should be noted that Bin Zafar took a superb catch to dismiss Andries Gous off the bowling of Rishiv Joshi, running at full speed beyond the inner circle from cover and diving at full stretch to take the catch inches from the ground.

Given the dropped catches and the fact that 23 runs came off the last over of the innings, it's conceivable that Canada could have restricted the USA to under 200 despite the favourable batting conditions.