Cricket
Opening batter and medium-pace bowler. School and college teams.
You're one short. I'm one free.
your marketing / product squad is one player short. I've been one short my whole life, so I know how to fix that.
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First draft. Anything inside a dashed outline is a placeholder waiting for Puru's real story, photos and numbers.
The toss
It started with a bat, a ball, and my father.
I was six when I first started playing cricket with my father. I never really stopped. What began with cricket slowly grew into a love for different kinds of sport, from football and table tennis to shooting, snooker and padel.
I've played six sports with consistency, while picking up plenty of others just for the fun of playing. Sport has been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember.
Cricketfirst, always
Age 6first bat in hand
6 sportsplayed consistently
Overs 1 to 6 · Powerplay
The highest level I've played at is school and college cricket. In my school team I was an opening batter and medium-pace bowler, giving me the chance to contribute with both bat and ball.
Playing competitively taught me the value of discipline, teamwork, handling pressure, and staying composed when the game doesn't go your way.
Opening batterand medium-pace bowler
School & collegecricket
Change of ends
Cricket was only the beginning.
Over the years I've played cricket, football, snooker, padel, shooting, badminton and table tennis. Some competitively, some simply for the love of the game.
I also competed in athletics at school, winning gold in both the 100m and 200m, and represented my school house in tug of war.
7 sports played. 2 gold medals. 1 constant: I like to compete.
Opening batter and medium-pace bowler. School and college teams.
Gold in the 100m and the 200m at school.
Represented my school house.
Football, snooker, padel, shooting, badminton and table tennis.
One line per sport if there's a story: where you play, who with, a match you remember.
Overs 7 to 15 · Middle overs
I started with an interest in solving problems. Over time, that turned into actually building, testing and taking ideas to people.
At AlphaInfinity AI I worked as a Business Development Associate, where I learned the other side of building a product: understanding the market and the customer. I researched industries and competitors, generated and qualified B2B leads, ran discovery calls, and translated business pain points into AI solutions. I also worked on pitch decks, proposals, product demos and pipeline strategy, tracking CRM metrics to improve outreach.
At Enactus NSUT I worked as a Project Consultant on Project Annotsav, an agri-tech venture modernizing Indian agriculture through IoT-based smart irrigation and remote farm monitoring. I helped take it from problem definition to solution design, set timelines, coordinated a cross-functional student team, and translated user needs into system requirements.
I also built products and case studies around problems I found interesting: an AI Career Navigator connecting students to missed opportunities, an EV charging experience for Delhi, and a smart street lighting MVP that achieved an estimated 25–30% reduction in power use.
Across all of them, the pattern stayed the same:
Understand the problem → talk to the user → define the solution → build it → measure whether it works.
Somewhere along the way, I realized I wanted to apply that way of thinking to something I've cared about since I was six: sport.
25–30%less power, smart lighting MVP
AlphaInfinity AIbusiness development
Enactus NSUTProject Annotsav
Drinks break · Scorecard
Because I don't just want to play the future of sport. I want to help build it.
As life gets busier and children have fewer opportunities to play, I believe the way people access sport has to evolve. Playo is a glimpse of that future.
You don't always need a fixed group of friends to play. You can book a turf, join an existing game, meet strangers who love the same sport, and turn them into friends. Even when your usual group can't make it, the game doesn't have to stop.
I've spent years being a player. Now I want to be involved in building the future that keeps people playing.
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Overs 16 to 20 · Death overs
Draft ideas to show the format. Puru swaps in his own, with a mock-up or short video for each.
"We're one short, anyone free?" is the most sent message in amateur sport. Own that line. Every ad, push and poster starts with it and ends with a game that filled up.
A new sport every month, a stamp for each one. I go first on camera: cricket, football, snooker, padel. Players who collect the set get their next game free.
Take street teams that have never booked a ground and give them their first proper match under lights. Film the walk from the lane to the turf.
Net session
How this site got made, in one line. Ideally using the company's own product somewhere in the process.
Stumps
about my joining date. (Based in: city)