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Sushil Nadkarni
Sushilkumar Suhas Nadkarni (born 31 May 1976) is an Indian-American cricketer.[1] A left-handed batsman and off spin bowler,[2] he has played for the United States national cricket team since 2006, and previously played for India Under-19s and played first-class and List A cricket for Maharashtra.[3] BiographyBorn in Gangtok, Sikkim, India in 1976,[2] Sushil Nadkarni was considered to be one of India's most promising young players in the mid-1990s. In the 1994/95 Indian Under-19 season, he averaged 99, gaining him a place on the India Under-19 tour of Australia.[1] He played two Tests and two ODIs on the tour.[4] He played six times for Maharashtra the following season, but was unable to gain a regular place in the side.[1] After gaining good results in engineering exams, he emigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Texas. He first came to attention in the US in the 2005 inter-state competition, when he scored 171 and 214 in successive matches.[1] He first played for the US in August 2006, playing in the ICC Americas Championship in King City, Ontario. He made his Twenty20 debut on 9 February 2010, for the United States in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates.[5] In January 2012, he was declared captain of the USA cricket team. He most recently represented his adopted country in the ICC Twenty20 Cup Qualifier 2012. References
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