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A full-time engineer, Japan Kurumi Ota left cricket for six years to work on a billion-dollar project

Dubai: For Kurumi Ota, representing Japan at the Asian Games has required balancing international cricket with a demanding career in engineering. The 39-year-old works full-time as a systems engineer at SOMPO, making time for training and international tournaments difficult. Her employer allows her roughly two weeks off twice a year to compete internationally as per Sportstar, but there was a…

A full-time engineer, Japan Kurumi Ota left cricket for six years to work on a billion-dollar project

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