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Fast bowler Saurabh Netrawalkar, who was instrumental in America’s victory over Pakistan in the T20 World Cup, said he enjoys ‘coding’ off the field and troubling the batsmen on the field. Left-arm fast bowler Netrawalkar did not allow former champions Pakistan to reach the target in the Super Over, as America managed to pull off the biggest upset of the tournament. Due to this, Netrawalkar suddenly became a topic of discussion in the cricket world.
“It was just one match in which we did well,” Netrawalkar told PTI. Our focus has to be on the next match and to be honest, all the players in the US team are trying to assimilate their achievements, who is originally from Mumbai and is a member of India’s under-19 team is a software engineer and juggles cricket and his job very well. A balance has been achieved.
“I never felt any pressure,” he said. When you like something it doesn’t work for you. So when I am on the field I like to bowl and trouble the batsmen. When I’m coding, I get into it. That’s why I never felt that I was forced to do anything.”
Netrawalkar, who bowled a super over against Pakistan, took the wickets of Mohammad Rizwan and Iftikhar Ahmed. He bowled against England Under-19 cricketers Jos Buttler, Joe Root, Ben Stokes who played in New Zealand in 2010. World Cup were playing Netra was bowling with Jaydev Undkat and Sandeep Sharma of Punjab at that time. But being good is not enough in Mumbai, one has to be the best.
After completing engineering in computer science, Netra got a scholarship to pursue MS at Cornell University, USA. He was never separated from cricket and made headlines in American cricket by performing well at every level. Apart from cricket, he can be seen at Oracle’s office in Silicon Valley where he is a senior employee.