Out in California, there is a software engineer who has been trying to figure out his work-life balance,

finishing code and playing in one of the world's most watch sports tournaments, the

Men's Cricket World Cup.

So I try to switch on and switch off.

So when I am focusing on my work, I'm completely switched on my work.

And if I'm on the field, I'm completely on the field.

So that really helps me switching on and switching off. That's Sarb Nechavulker, an engineer for Oracle and a star player for

team USA. He led his team to a massive upset earlier this month, beating a titan of cricket, Pakistan.

The red-white and blue of USA has overcome the 2022 finalists. The stars and stripes are flying high and proudly in Dallas Texas.

Zarab spoke with my colleague tech reporter Pranchu verma who is obsessed with cricket.

Yeah I mean the way I've been kind of telling my buddies is like you know team USA

beating Pakistan is is kind of like a mediocre college basketball team, you know,

beating like the Lakers or the Mabs or something. Like it's pretty unexpected

for something like that to happen whatsoever.

Team USA is advancing to the next round. They're playing South Africa on Wednesday

and Pranchu says the story of this team and of Sarab tells us something about the future of

cricket in the US, a sport that is still not in the mainstream here.

So Pranchu wanted to talk to Sarab.

I got on the phone with him because he's actually a normal dude.

He's not a pro-Criceter like you and I would think like a LeBron.

He's a 32 year old Indian software engineer. He's here on a green card and

he's basically representative of such a huge influx of tech workers, right?

...