Google’s Indian-American CEO Sundar Pichai has predicted that India and England would conflict within the finals of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 and mentioned he was “rooting” for the boys in blue to emerge victoriously. Describing himself as a passionate cricket fan, the 46-year-old head of California-based web large mentioned that when he got here to the US, he discovered baseball a bit difficult.
“It (ICC Cricket World Cup last match) must be (between) England and India. However, you understand, Australia and New Zealand, these are all very, superb groups,” Pichai advised a Washington viewers that included US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and high company executives from India and the US throughout the India Concepts Summit of USIBC whereby he acquired the World Management Award on Wednesday.
He was replying to USIBC president Nisha Desai Biswal who requested, “who do you suppose goes to play the ultimate match”. Pichai shared a few of his cricket and baseball experiences in the US. “After I first got here right here, I attempted to type of adapt to baseball. I’ve to say it was a bit difficult. In my first sport, I used to be proud as a result of I hit the ball on the again. It’s a extremely good shot in cricket. I used to be like, properly look, what I did. However folks didn’t admire it.
“In cricket whenever you run, you at all times take your bat with you. So I additionally ran between base with my bat as properly. So finally, I noticed baseball was a bit tough. I can modify on many issues, however I’m going to stay to cricket,” he mentioned. “There’s a cricket World Cup happening. It’s a beautiful match… rooting for India to do properly. However there’s so much at stake right here,” Pichai mentioned.
