Engineers who turned out to be cricketers

4. Venkatesh Prasad - Mechanical Engineering

Former India pacer Venkatesh Prasad was one of the stable features in the Indian team in the 1990s and played from 1994-2001. He appeared in 33 Tests and 161 ODIs, picking 96 and 196 wickets apiece. Furthermore, Prasad appeared in two World Cups in 1996 and 1999, picking up a fifer against Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup in Manchester. 

He was born on August 5, 1969, in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and did his initial schooling in ITI Vidya Mandir in Bangalore then went on to do a Bachelor of Engineering from Ramaiah Institute of Technology in MSR Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka. He also obtained a postgraduate certificate from the University of London.