The home team were in action, but it was difficult to say with certainty who were the home side. Blue was the dominant colour at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday, when T20 World Cup co-hosts United States took on Rohit Sharma’s India.

For the first half of their innings, the Americans stuttered and stumbled, struggling to recover from the loss off the first ball and last balls of the first over, from Arshdeep Singh, of Shayan Jahangir and Andries Ghous respectively after being put in. The ball kept nipping around for the pacers and stand-in skipper Aaron Jones—regular captain Monank Patel was out with a shoulder injury—and Steven Taylor were completely shackled against an on-point pace attack expertly led by Arshdeep.