USA's star cricketer Saurabh Netravalkar got nostalgic as he visited Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium in the lead-up to the T20 World Cup match against India. Cricket USA shared a video clip on its social media handles where the left-arm seamer is seen reminiscing his time playing at the stadium before he eventually moved to the US and started playing cricket there.
In the video Netravalkar can be heard saying that he was 14 years old when he first visited the cricket ground and coming back to the venue is making him emotional!
Netravalkar was born in Mumbai and represented India at the 2010 U-19 World Cup in New Zealand and was team's highest-wicket taker in the tournament. He harboured the dream of playing for India but with limited playing opportunities of playing cricket for Mumbai he migrated to USA to focus on his studies. There he resumed playing cricket which eventually led him to make his debut for USA's senior men's team in 2019.
The world took notice of his talent when USA beat Pakistan at the 2024 T20 World Cup. In that match he first bowled a brilliant spell of 2/18 and then kept his cool as he was asked to bowl the Super Over after the match was Tied. Netravalkar picked a wicket and conceded 13 runs in the Super Over and helped his side round-off a famous win.
He has represented USA in 41 T20is and picked 40 wickets.
The 34-year-old plays T20 league cricket and has featured in Caribbean Premier League, International League T20 and Major League Cricket.
India and USA will square-off in Group A fixture later tonight. Earlier in the day Pakistan beat the Netherlands by 3 wickets in the opening match of the tournament played in Colombo.
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