USA lose to India by 29 runs, which I probably would have taken at 8:15 this morning but was disappointing to watch. Netravalkar and the bats failed to build on their incredible start, and now they have THREE injured pace bowlers. Pakistan looms on Tuesday in Colombo.

And as if on cue, Milind Kumar watches Ishan Kishan catch the ball and takes two strides out of his crease, almost begging to get stumped. Kishan obliged. 71/4

50 partnership up for the USA with Milind and Krishnmaurthi after Sanjay takes Hardik Pandya deep on the ball after a wide. If USA can accelerate, they still have a shot, but it has to be soon.

USA finishes the power play just 31/3, well behind pace to chase 162. The good news is, they should start to see some spin with their best player of spin at the crease and established in Milind Kumar.

Mukkamalla goes for 2 off 7 and the USA might feel grateful to crack 100. Siraj and Arshdeep ripping the visitors apart.

Mukkamalla and Milind Kumar have put on more than one elite partnership in ODIs... can they do it in the short game? About the only hope the US has when they're already behind the 8-ball

Gous goes early and Monank Patel follows him to the pavilion. India getting downhill now.

India finishes 161/9, well off what they would have expected but SKY keeps his team afloat and injuries and loose bowling late from the USA help India escape what could have been a five-alarm fire.

Netravalkar has been awful

Axar Patel gone! Harmeet Singh gets him trying to go big and India have no true batters left in the shed at 118/7. A lot of pressure on Arshdeep Singh to just hang on here and hand things off to SKY.

India bats grinding to life and now Ali Khan is hurt diving for a ball hit very fine behind square.

Hardik gone on the rope! You can hear a pin drop at the Wankhede! India is 77/6 against the United States!

Mohsin gets Rinku Singh to hole out to long on. Hardik up now with India 73/5 through 12. Pitch has not given them what they thought it would.

Another drop for Ranjane, this time off his own bowling to potentially get SKY. India 63/4 at the halfway mark, Harmeet Singh in now

ANOTHER! A DUBE DUCK! van Schalkwyk putting in a spell like his Minor League Cricket work last fall against the World Cup favorites! India 46/4 after the power play and in a real bind.

van Schalkwyk gets one more! Tilak Varma gone! USA firmly into India's middle order in the power play. 46/3 5.5

van Schalkwyk gets Kishan! A bolt right at Milind Kumar at mid on. Drop doesn't hurt as much now. 45/2 through 5.2.

Really, really bad drop by Ranjane at backward point. Ali Khan should have had another.

van Schalkwyk had to make a business decision on a comebacker, lucky he didn't break a finger. India 33/1 after 4. USA will take that.

ALI KHAN GETS ABHISHEK FOR A DUCK

USA won the toss and will bowl first against India at the Wankhede. No Jasprit Bumrah for India. Saurabh Netravalkar gets the ball to start against Ishan Kishan.

Can confirm, this is how the Verso ending of Expedition 33 made me feel

I rewrote this one four times trying to get the tone right for what I wanted to say. I'm not sure I did, but I think I got close. It's very likely the only thing you'll read about the T20 World Cup that features CCR, the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, and an ouroboros.

Jon-Jon Smuts would be a mighty contender in Moniker Madness.

It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’re letting them charge us $17 dollars for a beer and $11 dollars for a damn hotdog at the concession stand? Enough. Here’s one thing we can do about it.

Walked into the kitchen to this, he completely ignored me

USA vice-captain Jessy Singh just landed really hard on his shoulder diving for a catch in a warm-up match against New Zealand and had to be helped off the field. The T20 World Cup starts in less than 48 hours.

In about 36 months, a lot of employers are going to realize they made catastrophic hiring mistakes because they took the bait on generative AI.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

"It's a non-fungible token, Jerry!" "Non-fungible? what does that mean?" "You know, it means you, uh, you can't funge it!" "No funging at all?" "NO FUNGE!"

I have said this and I will say it until I am blue in the face: none of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan should be playing international cricket right now on political interference grounds. Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe were suspended for way less.

Aaron Jones is likely done playing professional cricket after being suspended in a match-fixing probe that involved his time in a T10 league in Barbados. T10 has led to an explosion in betting scandals that will continue until someone with authority takes decisive action. When is it enough?

USA women's allrounder Isani Vaghela has been suspended from bowling in international cricket for an illegal action reported by umpires during the team's game against Ireland earlier this week.

The US men's cricket team announced their squad this morning for the T20 World Cup that starts next Saturday. Bright young pace bowler Rushil Ugarkar misses out, but there are few real surprises in the final 15:

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They did it! History! It got a little nervous as the chase went on but the USA women defeat Papua New Guinea by 5 wickets with 12 balls to spare to advance to the T20 World Cup Qualifier Super 6 stage for the first time ever! Ritu Singh with 13(8) gets them over the line with a couple of big shots.

In what is potentially the most important game in the history of USA women's cricket, the USA holds Papua New Guinea to 110 for their 20 overs. They'll chase a target of 111 with a win putting them through to the WCQ Super 6 for the first time ever. You can watch it for $0 on the ICC's website:

The USA women's cricket team takes on Papua New Guinea tonight with the winner going to the Super 6 of the T20 World Cup Qualifier. A team that has had little support has shown it's capable of much more if it can just get a place for its US-based players to play consistently.

"The Number of the Beast" begins with the same melody as "When the Saints Go Marching In"

My first impression of Paul Allen was "this guy is a jackass" and that has never once felt wrong nearly a decade later.

The whole interview is worth it

ICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom

I think we should get one NBA game a year where the winning team doesn't crack 80 to remind everyone how hard it is to score 100+ all the time. This could be that game.

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If you're looking for some sports to watch on Bluesky, The Official App of Sports, Tara Norris just took a pair of wickets in the fourth over for the USA women in their World Cup Qualifier matchup with Ireland:

We are approaching a point where international cricket in South Asia under a single governing body becomes impossible because of geopolitics. Great times!

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The USA women's cricket team snagged its first-ever win in the T20 World Cup Qualifier last night. It's a huge moment for a group that has been through a lot.

They have to turn around fast and play Ireland, but a win over Papua New Guinea on Sunday would likely be enough to advance to the Super 6 for the first time ever. Huge moment in women's cricket in the United States!

USA WINS! The women's team's first-ever win at the T20 Cricket World Cup, they chase down 145 against Namibia with 4 balls to spare. 70(51) for Ella Claridge and a quick-strike 21(10) from Ritu Singh were massive to getting them over the line. Tara Norris 3/34 with the ball in her return from injury