New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday (February 9) mixed diplomacy with cricket humour while speaking at a reception hosted at the residence of US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor, praising the US cricket team's performance against India in the T20 World Cup and underlining the ambassador's role in strengthening bilateral trade ties.

Referring to the recent T20 World Cup match between India and the United States, Goyal said the US may have lost the game, but its performance was impressive given the country's relatively new engagement with the sport.

"The US may not have won yesterday's match, but I must say, for a country which has not known cricket and has started on cricket a few years ago, the performance was fabul...