The captain of the United States national cricket team, which defeated international powerhouse Pakistan on Thursday in the T20 World Cup, was running an Asian-food restaurant a few years ago.
Monank Patel, who led the U.S. batting attack with 50 runs scored against Pakistan, worked ten- to twelve-hour days running Teriyaki Madness, in South Carolina, from 2016 to 2018. He had moved to New Jersey in 2014 after failing to make the U19 Indian national cricket team. “Depleting monthly sales meant he had to double as a chef and as the manager to cut corners in a bid to stay afloat,” Cricbuzz reports.
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