Sushil Nadkarni
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Sushilkumar Suhas "Sushil" Nadkarni (born 31 May 1976) is an India
India
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n born American
United States
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 cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. A left-handed batsman and off spin
Off spin
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 bowler, he has played for the United States national cricket team since 2006, and previously played for India Under-19s and played first-class
First-class cricket
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 and List A cricket for Maharashtra
Maharashtra cricket team
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Biography

Born in India in 1976, 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
Australia
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. He played two Tests and two ODIs on the tour. He played six times for Maharashtra the following season, but was unable to gain a regular place in the side.

After gaining good results in engineering exams, he emigrated to the United States
United States
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, eventually settling in Texas
Texas
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. He first came to attention in the USA in the 2005 inter-state competition, when he scored 171 and 214 in successive matches.

He first played for the USA in August 2006, playing in the ICC Americas Championship
ICC Americas Championship
The ICC Americas Championship is a one-day cricket tournament organised by the Americas Cricket Association for non-Test national cricket teams in the Americas...

 in King City, Ontario
King City, Ontario
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. He most recently represented his adopted country in Division Four
2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Four
The 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Four is a cricket tournament that took place in August 2010 in Italy. It is a part of the World Cricket League competition administered by the International Cricket Council, the international governing body for cricket...

 of the World Cricket League
World Cricket League
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 in Italy
Italy
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in 2010.
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