Saurabh Netravalkar, an Oracle techie, made headlines on social media shortly after he engineered the united states of America's (USA) historic victory over pakistan, the previous champions, at the ICC World t20 2024. In a thrilling Super-Over match on thursday at Grand Prairie Stadium, co-hosts USA defeated Babar Azam's pakistan, causing one of the greatest surprises in t20 world cup history.
 

A cricket player with coding skills. Before the united states and pakistan faced a battle on the biggest stage, Netravalkar was occupied with grabbing headlines. Recently, Netravalkar received further recognition after an X user disclosed that one of his Oracle coworkers will be competing against Rohit Sharma's Team india in the t20 World Cup. Who is Netravalkar, then? Let's learn more about the Oracle programmer who helped the united states defeat pakistan in the historic Super Over at the t20 world cup in Dallas.
 

Netravalkar, an indian cricket player born in mumbai on october 16, 1991, was the captain of the US national team at one point. It's interesting to note that Netravalkar had a brief domestic career in India. In 2015, the former cricket player for india U19 moved to the United States. He has represented mumbai in a Ranji Trophy match as well. For those who don't know, Netravalkar was a teammate of sandeep Sharma, mayank agarwal, Jaydev Unadkat, Harshal Patel, and KL Rahul.

Even though it was the shortest format between the USA and pakistan, Netravalkar documented his first meeting with Pakistani superstar Babar back in 2010. During the U-19 world cup, the former indian cricket player led the Rahul-starrer side's bowling assault. india lost to pakistan in the ICC tournament by two wickets, with Netravalkar defeating ahmed Shehzad. Netravalkar led india in wicket-taking at the 2010 ICC U-19 World Cup. He took nine wickets in six games for the Men in Blue at the time.

The former captain of the USA goes by Netra. The professional cricket player is Principal Member of Oracle's Technical Staff, according to his LinkedIn page. In 2016, the former Cornell university graduate teaching assistant earned his master's degree in computer science. In 2013, the American bowler graduated with a bachelor's degree from the university of Mumbai. In his spare time, Netravalkar enjoys taking valuable wickets from well-known players in the world of cricket.
 
 


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