India, Feb. 10 -- Pakistan had a score to settle with the USA after their shock defeat had seen them suffer an early exit from the 2024 T20 World Cup and they did that by prominently using spin as a force at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground under lights on Tuesday.

By loading their team with spinners, perhaps they sent a message to their upcoming opponents about how the land of fast bowlers plans to approach this competition differently.

Pakistan will play all their matches on the relatively slower pitches in Sri Lanka.

With an assortment of slow bowlers-from Abrar Ahmed's mystery spin to Shadab Khan's conventional leg-spin, Mohammed Nawaz's finger spin, Saim Ayub's assortment and Usman Tariq's right-arm-everything-they completely chai...