Japan: There are many such examples in the cricket world, in which a player has left his country and joined the team of another country. Actually, they mostly do this in search of an opportunity. This has happened many times in Team India as well, when they left their own country and started representing the cricket teams of Canada, Oman, Nepal, UAE and Japan.

Today we are going to talk about one such promising cricketer, who started playing cricket for Japan. You will be surprised to know that he is of Indian origin. Let us know about this player in detail in this article.

This Indian cricketer playing from Japan

Today we are going to tell you the story of a cricketer who started his cricket career from India, although later he started representing Japan.

Actually we are talking about right-handed batsman and slow left arm orthodox bowling all-rounder cricketer Piyush Kumbhare. He was born on 14 June 1990 in a small town in India. Later he started playing cricket for Japan.

This is what the career of this player has been like

Piyush Kumbhare has played a total of 16 T20 International matches for Japan. He has scored a total of 15 runs in these. Apart from this, if we talk about his bowling record, he has taken a total of 17 wickets in T20 Internationals so far. His best performance is 2 wickets for 8 runs.

Many players have left India before

Piyush Kumbhare is not the first player to play cricket for a country other than India.

There are many names in the list. These include the names of players like Unmukt Chand, Saurabh Netrawalkar, Harmeet Singh, Samit Patel, Vikramjit Singh, Aryan Dutt. People now know Unmukt Chand less as an Under-19 winning captain, but more as a player who left India to play cricket for America.