USA celebrate T20 World Cup debut in style with stirring victory over Canada

• USA 197-3 beat Canada 194-5 by seven wickets in Dallas, Texas
• Jones (94*), Gous (65) guide co-hosts to win with 131-run stand

Build it, and they will come. The great American cricket experiment got underway on Saturday night, when the USA beat Canada by seven wickets in the opening match of the T20 World Cup at the little ground in Grand Prairie, Texas. And hell's bells if it wasn't, in its own little way, one of the game's great occasions.

A crowd of around 5,000 were treated to a brilliantly freewheeling innings by the USA's Aaron Jones, a pocket-rocket batsman who was born in Queens, and raised in Barbados. Jones clobbered 10 sixes, one of them clean out of the ground, in an undefeated innings of 94 off just 40 balls.