United States: There have been many players in Indian cricket history who chose to leave their country and play for another country. Actually, nowadays the youth lack patience. Sometimes a player has to wait for years to play for Team India.

In such a situation, instead of working hard in domestic cricket, some players take shortcuts and go to represent America, UAE, Oman, Nepal or Canada. Today in this article we are going to talk about such a young player who has joined the USA cricket team at the age of just 20. Let us know about this opener batsman in detail.

20 year old Indian playing for USA

The cricketer we are talking about is Saiteja Mukkamalla. He was born on April 9, 2004 in New Jersey. However, he is of Indian origin. His family left India and moved to America before Saiteja was born.

This player was selected in the USA team to play the ICC Cricket Cricket World Cup League 2 series in May 2022. After this, Saiteeja Mukkalla made his ODI debut against Squadland on 28 May 2022.

This is what the career of this player has been like

Saiteja Mukkamalla has played 17 matches for the USA so far. In this, he has scored 381 runs at an average of 23.81 while remaining not out once. During this, the right-handed batsman has scored one century and one half-century.

The 20-year-old player made his T20 International debut on 27 August 2024. However, so far he has got a chance to play only one match in this format.