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Saurabh Netravalkar: Saurabh Netravalkar is the name who defeated the current world champion Pakistan while playing for USA in the T20 World Cup 2024. In a thrilling match of the T20 World Cup 2024, the US team made a big upset on Thursday and defeated Pakistan in the Super Over. In this match, Saurabh played an important role by taking 2 wickets for 13 runs in just 4 overs. Due to his brilliant performance, the USA team won by 5 runs over the 2009 champion Pakistan in a very exciting Group A match of the ICC T20 World Cup. So far America has won the second consecutive match.
America defeated Pakistan
Batting first after losing the toss, Pakistan scored 159 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs and gave the USA a target of 160 runs to win. In reply, chasing Pakistan's target of 160 runs, USA captain Monank Patel (50 runs, 38 balls, seven fours, one six) scored a half century and Andreas Gaus (35) scored 68 runs and the match was tied when the USA scored 159 runs. Runs for 3 wickets. Aaron Jones (36 not out off 26 balls) and Nitish Kumar (14 not out) scored 13 runs in the last over to tie the match. After this, the USA defeated Pakistan by 5 runs in the super over.
Who is Saurabh Netravalkar?
America's left-arm fast bowler Saurabh Netravalkar is of Indian origin. Saurabh has a very deep connection with India. He was born on 16 October 1991 in Mumbai. He has played domestic cricket for Mumbai. Saurabh Netravalkar came into the limelight when he created a sensation by taking 30 wickets in 6 matches of the Cooch Behar Trophy played in 2008-09. He has played for India in the 2010 Under-19 World Cup. He has also played cricket with Indian players like KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal and Sandeep Sharma during the 2010 Under-19 World Cup. The highest wicket-taker from India in the 2010 Under-19 World Cup was 9.
Moved to US as a Software Engineer
Saurabh Netravalkar took the difficult decision to quit cricket to focus on his studies. After completing his studies in computer engineering, he settled in America. Where he started working in Oracle company as a software engineer in America and was also a part of cricket there. So far he has taken 73 wickets in 48 ODIs for USA. He has taken 27 wickets in 28 T20 international matches.