- In 2015, Saurabh Netravalkar gave up his dreams of playing professional cricket in India and moved to the US to work as a software engineer.
“Cricket was over for me. I had no hope or expectation left to play again,” he says.
On Wednesday, almost a decade later, he will face the Indian cricket team in a T20 World Cup match at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York.
But he will do so as part of the US team.
As he embarks on his World Cup dream, Netravalkar says the match will be an “emotional moment” for a cricketer who once played for India’s Under-19 team.
“Many of my former team-mates are now playing for India,” he tells the BBC.
But he is unfazed about the prospect of facing
