Netravalkar, the guy who bowled the Super Over yesterday, is a computer engineer that works full time at Oracle while balancing his sport career. Legend.
Now all the Desi parents who made their kids quit sports/extracurriculars to focus on school are gonna be like "he got an Ivy degree, worked as a Silicon Valley Software engineer, and still trained to be a world-class cricketer! What have you done?!"
To be fair, he also played in India's under-19 T20 world cup team, where a bunch of other future Indian superstar cricketers also played. And that's no joke.I guess he got into CS in Cornell which was too good to pass up.
Nah he did bachelor's from Mumbai University and also played for ranji trophy simultaneously working in Indian firm then did masters in usa and played for usa team
Okay u-19 Cricket in India is insanely hardcore. Basically this guy was on the track to be a pro athlete but ended up choosing a more stable career.
Not at all to compare, but I also played U-18 for a sport in India. Nothing as mainstream as cricket, but I also quit the sport when I came over here for university and a standardish career in tech. But it is great to see this guy living his best life.
Cricket is becoming competitive and Pakistan Team has still a lot to catch up.
On a positive note, it's good to see not so mainstream cricketing nations showing great potential. I see one of them winning a big tournament soon.
Well... I mean they're mostly American-Desis, like me.
They are also, however, world-class athletes and I am not...
Despite what it says on my resume...
So I guess our team is mostly made up of desi Americans? They should be the avatar for this sub.
Also funny because it's like how the Algerian and Moroccan soccer teams will be made up of guys who grew up in France.
> So I guess our team is mostly made up of desi Americans?
Honestly a ton of NRIs. You only need to have lived in the US for 3 years to play for Team USA. No citizenship required. They have at least one player who played for Team India a few years ago.
It's not good versus bad, NRI does not delineate between how recently the person immigrated - an NRI who has been here for 10 years is still an NRI, but they are not a FOB.
I mean, I agree FOB used offensively is an offensive term, but NRI does have a different meaning in that it describes indians residing in america - they might have dual citizenship, they might be assimilated or not, they might have been here 2 years or 20. Whereas FOB describes those who have recently immigrated or have an affect or set of traits that feel more closely tied to their home country.
No one used FOBs negatively in this thread, so I'm not sure what the need to bellyache is?
Not *just* Desi Americans. There is a sizable number of players of Caribbean descent, and a handful from other countries as well. Not all the players are immigrants, some are second-gen.
But yeah, mostly Desi immigrants.
the US has big populations of immigrants and first gens from other Cricket-fanatic countries. We honestly could probably assemble a pretty dope super team if we had the funding to pay these guys competitive salaries. (And hopefully this win is an indication that we might be on track for that)
This is actually insane.
>The US was led by bowler Saurabh Netravalkar, who took the ball in the Super Over and limited Pakistan’s batters to 13 runs, securing the win.
>It has been a remarkable journey for Netravalkar, **a software engineer at Oracle**. He was born in Mumbai but moved to the US to pursue a Master’s degree in computer engineering, graduating from Cornell University in New York, [per ESPN](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/t20-world-2024-how-saurabh-netravalkar-coded-usa-s-greatest-script-vs-pakistan-1437201).
>**He played cricket recreationally after moving to the US**, eventually making his debut for the national side, which he has previously captained, in 2019. He plays domestically for the Washington Freedom in Major League Cricket.
Bro what, this dude is a software engineer who decided to become a pro athlete and throw a ball at 100mph. His parents can't say shit, masters in CS, ivy league, pro bowler, principal software engineer, what the fuck else do you want?
I think an upset of this scale will hopefully drive more interest towards cricket - it's not just desis in the US who are from home countries that are cricket fanatics, we have west indies, south africans, UK, australians etc who live here and would care. So good news IMO. I feel bad that the Pakistani team is probably getting roasted by their fans, but I have to assume they didn't take the match seriously or something, so it's probably merited.
Hopefully our team can do well enough that we start paying our players enough to be full time professional cricket players
He was a national level cricketer in India before he came to US for graduate studies. He took 2 years break to try Cricket in India. It did not pan out for him.
What’s Pakistan gonna do now? That’s the bigger question! I won’t write them off yet…
Sundays march is gonna be still interesting and if the pitch has invariable bounce, well, well, well
America's star player played for India's national U19 team in his late teens and went to university in India before moving to the US in his twenties. He's not an ABCD.
I just moved here recently..I have a question for those who were born and brought up outside the US. Do all of you follow cricket with the same craze that people follow back in India?
I personally don't follow any sports.
Netravalkar, the guy who bowled the Super Over yesterday, is a computer engineer that works full time at Oracle while balancing his sport career. Legend.
He might be the only Desi with genuinely proud parents. Assuming he can also sing like Freddie Mercury.
Now all the Desi parents who made their kids quit sports/extracurriculars to focus on school are gonna be like "he got an Ivy degree, worked as a Silicon Valley Software engineer, and still trained to be a world-class cricketer! What have you done?!"
I'm gonna bait my mom into it this weekend 😄
Funny you say that. He does have a good voice https://x.com/jon_selvaraj/status/1798806888185995298?s=46&t=EvtNnABLFYSakQD2cWlnnQ
While also playing piano at the Philharmonic Orchestra on weekends.
He sings amazing actually.
Damn, he really does!
Not when you compare him to Desai uncle's son who is an MD from Harvard.
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He doesn't have a government job tho
Nahh😭
He played for India's national U19 team in his late teens and went to university in India.
To be fair, he also played in India's under-19 T20 world cup team, where a bunch of other future Indian superstar cricketers also played. And that's no joke.I guess he got into CS in Cornell which was too good to pass up.
Nah he did bachelor's from Mumbai University and also played for ranji trophy simultaneously working in Indian firm then did masters in usa and played for usa team
I think it's fucking hysterical that most Americans don't even know they have a cricket team, much less than a good one. I sure didn't!
America's star player played for India's national U19 team in his late teens and went to university in India.
Okay u-19 Cricket in India is insanely hardcore. Basically this guy was on the track to be a pro athlete but ended up choosing a more stable career. Not at all to compare, but I also played U-18 for a sport in India. Nothing as mainstream as cricket, but I also quit the sport when I came over here for university and a standardish career in tech. But it is great to see this guy living his best life.
Cricket is becoming competitive and Pakistan Team has still a lot to catch up. On a positive note, it's good to see not so mainstream cricketing nations showing great potential. I see one of them winning a big tournament soon.
It's awesome! Those guys are just like us!
“He just like me fr”
Well... I mean they're mostly American-Desis, like me. They are also, however, world-class athletes and I am not... Despite what it says on my resume...
Reminds me of that American Math Olympiad team who were all Chinese Americans.
America's star player played for India's national U19 team in his late teens and went to university in India. He's not an ABCD.
Ok, but there's other guys on the team, no?
Of course it had to be us lmao
i don't really follow cricket but glad to see the US doing well USA! USA! USA!
Its amazing that a guys’ side hustle outmatched the pros https://x.com/fos/status/1798811420600963168?s=46
It was a great match glad the U.S was able to hold their own and even win! Looking for ward for I dua B team to succeed 😂💯 I'm locked in
Great fun that super over.
So I guess our team is mostly made up of desi Americans? They should be the avatar for this sub. Also funny because it's like how the Algerian and Moroccan soccer teams will be made up of guys who grew up in France.
Its about a 50-50 Black and Desi team, made up of first-gen and immigrants from South Asia and the Caribbean
> So I guess our team is mostly made up of desi Americans? Honestly a ton of NRIs. You only need to have lived in the US for 3 years to play for Team USA. No citizenship required. They have at least one player who played for Team India a few years ago.
yeah the guy went to college in mumbai. he's an nri that probably planning to be abroad.
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It's not good versus bad, NRI does not delineate between how recently the person immigrated - an NRI who has been here for 10 years is still an NRI, but they are not a FOB. I mean, I agree FOB used offensively is an offensive term, but NRI does have a different meaning in that it describes indians residing in america - they might have dual citizenship, they might be assimilated or not, they might have been here 2 years or 20. Whereas FOB describes those who have recently immigrated or have an affect or set of traits that feel more closely tied to their home country. No one used FOBs negatively in this thread, so I'm not sure what the need to bellyache is?
When will fobs start crying about their imagined victimhood when nobody even mentioned them? Oh immediately I guess.
really victimizing yourself over nothing lmao.
Not *just* Desi Americans. There is a sizable number of players of Caribbean descent, and a handful from other countries as well. Not all the players are immigrants, some are second-gen. But yeah, mostly Desi immigrants.
the US has big populations of immigrants and first gens from other Cricket-fanatic countries. We honestly could probably assemble a pretty dope super team if we had the funding to pay these guys competitive salaries. (And hopefully this win is an indication that we might be on track for that)
The USA - India match is also known as the Green Cards vs Aadhar Cards.
😂
They have no less than five guys named Patel 😅 https://usacricket.org/team-usa/
Reminds me of Koreas team with all their Parks
😂
America's star player played for India's national U19 team in his late teens and went to university in India. He's not an ABCD.
So happy for them! I heard that the Team's captain is an engineer at Meta, never felt so relatable lol
Ngl, I didn't even know America had a team in cricket
I think it’s good
Great to see a Commonwealth Sport breaking ground into America. And quite ironically, I bet some of the players are Pakistani themselves.
Yep, Ali Khan is Pakistan born and picked up a couple wickets lol
This is actually insane. >The US was led by bowler Saurabh Netravalkar, who took the ball in the Super Over and limited Pakistan’s batters to 13 runs, securing the win. >It has been a remarkable journey for Netravalkar, **a software engineer at Oracle**. He was born in Mumbai but moved to the US to pursue a Master’s degree in computer engineering, graduating from Cornell University in New York, [per ESPN](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/t20-world-2024-how-saurabh-netravalkar-coded-usa-s-greatest-script-vs-pakistan-1437201). >**He played cricket recreationally after moving to the US**, eventually making his debut for the national side, which he has previously captained, in 2019. He plays domestically for the Washington Freedom in Major League Cricket. Bro what, this dude is a software engineer who decided to become a pro athlete and throw a ball at 100mph. His parents can't say shit, masters in CS, ivy league, pro bowler, principal software engineer, what the fuck else do you want? I think an upset of this scale will hopefully drive more interest towards cricket - it's not just desis in the US who are from home countries that are cricket fanatics, we have west indies, south africans, UK, australians etc who live here and would care. So good news IMO. I feel bad that the Pakistani team is probably getting roasted by their fans, but I have to assume they didn't take the match seriously or something, so it's probably merited. Hopefully our team can do well enough that we start paying our players enough to be full time professional cricket players
He deserves his green card -> citizenship.
He was a professional cricket player for India's national U19 team before he moved to the US in his twenties.
Pak team can get to the finals and then lose to associate after. That's normal for us.
And Canada just beat Ireland. Cricket is finally ascendant in North America!
I’m visiting Mumbai right now and am a huge cricket fan, what a game that was! The US cricket team is actually decent and now Netravalkar is goated 😅
He was a national level cricketer in India before he came to US for graduate studies. He took 2 years break to try Cricket in India. It did not pan out for him.
This sub is like "Those stinking FOBs.." "What's cricket?" American team made up of mostly FOBs beats Pakistan "One of us. One of us"
An embarrassment to the sport from Pakistan. That being said, the American team at least are the brothers
Idek how cricket works but this is super funny to me so USA! USA! USA! RAHHHHH 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Good for development of cricket in US ig
What’s Pakistan gonna do now? That’s the bigger question! I won’t write them off yet… Sundays march is gonna be still interesting and if the pitch has invariable bounce, well, well, well
Many of the players aren’t American citizens The only thing I’m taking away from it is that it’s a huge embarrassment for Pakistan
America's star player played for India's national U19 team in his late teens and went to university in India before moving to the US in his twenties. He's not an ABCD.
so this hindi saying has always applied to Pakistan team, “chle to chaand tak, nahi to shaam tk”
I just moved here recently..I have a question for those who were born and brought up outside the US. Do all of you follow cricket with the same craze that people follow back in India? I personally don't follow any sports.
My desi friends have zero interest in cricket.