{"id":43945,"date":"2026-02-10T19:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=43945"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:06:19","slug":"pak-vs-usa-t20-world-cup-2026-shadley-van-schalkwyk-takes-2-wickets-in-an-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/t20-world-cup\/pak-vs-usa-t20-world-cup-2026-shadley-van-schalkwyk-takes-2-wickets-in-an-over\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK vs USA T20 World Cup 2026: Shadley van Schalkwyk takes 2 wickets in an over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States clawed their way back into the contest against Pakistan after a decisive over from <strong>Shadley van Schalkwyk<\/strong>, who struck twice in quick succession to halt Pakistan\u2019s flying start in the powerplay.<\/p>\n<p>With Pakistan cruising at <strong>56\/0 in 5 overs<\/strong>, the sixth over proved to be a turning point. Van Schalkwyk first removed <strong>Saim Ayub<\/strong>, who was caught at short third man while attempting to force the pace after a brisk start. Just five balls later, he struck again, dismissing <strong>Salman Agha<\/strong>, who fell to a well-judged catch at deep square leg by <strong>Shayan Jahangir<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The double strike broke Pakistan\u2019s rhythm after an aggressive opening that included a record five sixes in the powerplay \u2014 their most in that phase in T20 World Cups. From dominating the early exchanges, Pakistan were suddenly forced into consolidation mode as USA tightened the field and slowed the scoring rate.<\/p>\n<p>Van Schalkwyk\u2019s spell underlined USA\u2019s growing bowling depth in the tournament, showing how timely wickets \u2014 rather than just economy \u2014 can quickly change the complexion of a T20 game, even against a traditionally strong side like Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States clawed their way back into the contest against Pakistan after a decisive over from Shadley van Schalkwyk,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":43946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4641],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-t20-world-cup"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43947,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945\/revisions\/43947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}