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Life-changing day: Dharavi’s Simran Shaikh, daughter of a wireman, fetches Rs 1.90 crore bid at WPL auction
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Life-changing day: Dharavi’s Simran Shaikh, daughter of a wireman, fetches Rs 1.90 crore bid at WPL auction

When she was a budding cricketer, neighbours of Dharavi resident Simran Shaikh discouraged her father from allowing her to play the sport saying ‘yeh ladki, ladkon ke sath khelti’ (She plays with boys).” On Sunday evening, those very same people made a beeline to her ramshackle tiny home in Asia’s biggest slum to congratulate her father Jahid Ali, a wireman as Simran was bought by Gujarat Giants for Rs 1.90 crore at the Women’s Premier League (WPL) auction held in Bengaluru. “I have no words to express my joy. Till last night I was just hoping to just get picked by one of the teams. I have been getting non-stop calls since Gujarat Giants bought me at the auction. There were times when it was a struggle to buy a basic cricket kit. But whatever I have got is because of cricket and I will wor...