[sport] Babar Azam: Pakistan 'not up to the mark' in USA shock defeat, says captain

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Left-arm seamer Saurabh Netravalkar, who bowled the winning over, has worked as an engineer for the past six years - according to his LinkedIn profile - alongside playing for the US national team since 2019.Pakistan were "not up to the mark" in their shock T20 World Cup defeat to the USA, with captain Babar Azam adding that his team were guilty of underestimating their opponents. Tournament co-hosts the USA delivered an historic upset with their Super-Over win over 2022 finalists Pakistan on Thursday after both sides finished the match tied on 159."Whenever you come into any tournament, you always do the best preparation," Babar told reporters after his side's defeat. "But you can say it's a kind of mindset, when you come up against a team like this, you relax a little. You take things a little lightly."I believe that we are not up to the mark in executing. We are doing well in preparation, but in the match, we are not executing our plans as a team."Pakistan next face arch-rivals India in a blockbuster game in New York on Sunday - live on Sky Sports Cricket from 3.20pm.Saurabh Netravalkar, who also has a Master of Science (MS) degree from Cornell University in New York, was born in Mumbai and is one of a handful of players in the USA squad not originally from the country but who have qualified through living there for over three years.

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