United States of India: From Ahmedabad, Ooty, Mumbai, Delhi, meet USA's giant slayers
The Hindu
Meet the stars of USA's T20 World Cup debut, who stunned the cricket world by beating Pakistan.
Some were seeking greener pastures after a decent first-class career, a few wanted life to give them a second chance, while for some others, being good but not good enough was what forced them to locate an obscure cricket field at the weekend.
Meet the stars of the T20 World Cup debutants USA who stunned the cricket world by beating last edition's finalists Pakistan.
The Ahmedabad-born captain of the team won the player of the match award for his half century and is one of the rare people, who shifted to basically pursue his cricketing career. He got a Green Card in 2010 and shifted to New Jersey permanently in 2016.
A hard-hitting right-hander, he also conducts coaching clinics and imparts cricket lessons to diaspora kids thrice a week when he is not on national duty. Initially, there were very few turf wickets in the USA and Monank has played a lot on matting as well as 20 and 30-over weekend club tournaments across the country.
The man of the moment after a killer Super Over and before that squaring up Mohammed Rizwan with an away swinger and fooling Iftikhar Ahmed with a low dipping slow full-toss, Netravalkar is the story of a successful marriage between academics and sports.
In 2010, he bowled against the likes of Joe Root, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, the golden batch of U-19 English cricketers, who played in that World Cup in New Zealand and 'Netra', as he was known back then, formed a potent pairing with fellow left-arm seamer Jaydev Unadkat and Punjab's Sandeep Sharma.
However just like in Mumbai, being good isn't enough and one needs to be the best to survive. With an engineering degree in Computer Science, the academically brilliant lad got a scholarship to pursue his MS from the prestigious Cornell University.
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