As of now, the outfield is still wet, with a few wet spots in and around the 30-yard circle, resulting in a delay in the start of the first men's T20I game between India and Canada. Covers were still on the squares under gloomy skies at the venue, which saw some rain in the early morning and was expected to continue with isolated thunderstorms throughout the day. The Sri Lanka-Nepal and Ireland-USA matches in the World Cup were already abandoned due to rain and wet outfield.

If Saturday's match is cancelled, 2007 champions India will top the Group 'A' points table, while co-hosts USA will remain second. The relegation would move Canada into third place, ousting 2009 champions Pakistan. Pakistan, already eliminated from the competition, will have to win their last match against Ireland in Lauderhill to finish third in the group.

Having already secured a spot in the Super Eights, India were aiming to potentially give some game time to players like Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, or Yuzvendra Chahal, while also seeing if the charismatic Virat Kohli gets some runs. Scores of 4, 1 and 0 have been recorded so far in the tournament.

Squad:

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Hardik Pandya (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.

Canada: Saad Bin Zafar (captain), Aaron Johnson, Dilan Heiliger, Shreyas Movva (wk), Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Jeremy Gordon, Junaid Siddiqui, Kaleem Sana, Dilpreet Bajwa, Rishiv Joshi, Kanwarpal Tathgur (wk), Pargat Singh. , Ravinderpal Singh and Raiyankhan Pathan.