5 Highly Educated Indian Cricketers You Probably Didn’t Know About

Cricket is a fairly profitable career choice, but playing the game professionally has a number of advantages and downsides, with one of the major fears that most aspiring cricketers have being the fear of not making it big. Anyone interested in the game, or any other sport for that matter, should protect their career by being intellectually competent enough to have back-up choices if things don’t go as planned.

On that note, here are 5 Highly Educated Indian Cricketers You Probably Didn’t Know About:

1. Anil Kumble – Completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering

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Anil Kumble, the legendary Indian leg-spinner and former coach of the Indian cricket team, brilliantly revolutionised the Indian bowling department in his age while the batsmen stole all the fame and glory, Kumble was doing his job behind the scenes with the ball. He improved as he grew older, and in his latter years, he was just as lethal outside India as he was unplayable at home.

Throughout an 18-year career, he took 619 wickets in 132 Tests and 337 wickets in 271 One-Day Internationals. He now has 956 foreign victims to his credit, and he was the individual who carried out our attack from 1990 to 2008.

Despite being a cricketing legend, Kumble is also a highly educated man. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Rashtriya Vidyalaya College of Engineering.

2. Murali Vijay – Post Graduate degree in Economics

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Another player who benefited from a good time in the IPL, the Indian opener earned his debut for the national team in 2008. He honed his skills for the lengthier game and went on to become an established opener in the current Indian lineup.

Vijay, on the other hand, had a rocky start. He left his house after failing class XII in order to figure out life and better understand himself. Vijay returned to school, finishing high school and enrolling in the Vivekananda College in Mylapore, Chennai. He now has a degree in economics and a master’s degree in philosophy, according to cricket.com.au.34

3. Ravichandran Ashwin – B. Tech degree in Information Technology

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Ashwin, Team India’s frontline spinner and a capable hitter, rose to prominence after performing for the Chennai Super Kings under Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s guidance. In 2010, he made his ODI and T20 debuts, and a year later, he made his Test debut.

Ashwin attended Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan and St. Bede’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School for his education. He went on to study engineering, earning a bachelor’s degree in information technology from the SSN College of Engineering in Chennai. Ashwin formerly worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions.

4. Javagal Srinath – Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumental Technology

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Srinath, one of the quickest Indian bowlers of all time, was regarded as a logical successor to Kapil Dev’s type of speed bowling. Although quitting from international cricket in 2003, he is the only Indian bowler to have taken over 300 ODI wickets. He became an ICC Match referee after retiring, making his debut as a match official in 2006.

He received his engineering degree in Instrumentation Technology from the Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering in Mysuru, which is now known as JSS Science and Technology University.

5. Rahul Dravid – Graduate Degree in Commerce

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Dravid, regarded as one of the finest No. 3 batters of all time, comes from an intellectual family, since his mother is a professor of architecture at the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, better known as the Government Engineering College.

He graduated from the famous St. Joseph’s Boys High School and went on to earn a commerce degree from the St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Dravid was pursuing MBA at St Joseph’s College of Business Administration when he was called up to play cricket for India.

Also Read: 10 Indian cricketers who vanished after promising starts (cricfiles.com)