![]() ![]() It will give me a perfect opportunity to learn and hone my skills, playing alongside the greats.” It's a dream come true for me to play with a team I always loved. “I was confident of playing IPL but never expected to get this price-tag. Varma, who had a base price of Rs 20 lakh, generated huge interest among the franchises and led to an intense bidding between Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajasthan Royals, Chennai Super Kings before the Rohit Sharma-led side breached the Rs one-crore mark for the young left-hander, who also bowls off-spin.Ĭurrently in Cuttack with the Hyderabad Ranji Trophy squad for their upcoming league matches, Varma said he had never expected such a ‘big price deal’. Tilak Varma! #OneFamily #MumbaiIndians #AalaRe #TATAIPLAuction #IPLAuction /1OAOM3QC71 Presenting to you our Stunning Southpaw - N. But my coach ensured that I continued playing cricket. “There was a lot of suffering and we had to cut down our expenses during the pandemic. Living in a rented house, Varma’s four-member family was hit hard financially during the COVID-19 pandemic as his father stopped getting new contracts during the lockdowns, but his cricket did not suffer, thanks to his coach’s ‘unrelenting support’. ![]() So it’s all because of him and my family's support I’m here,” he added. “He bought me the cricketing gears and took care of most of the expenses (at Legala Cricket Academy). “Mere baarein mein bhale hi na likho, but coach sir ka zaroor mention karna (It’s okay not to write about me but definitely do highlight Salam sir),” Varma told news agency PTI after being bought by the record five-time champions. His father Namboori Nagaraju could hardly afford to send Varma to a cricket academy and buy him the gears, but Salam ‘took care of his expenses’. It is not for nothing that Varma attributes his growth as a cricketer to his coach Salam Bayash, who provided him the necessary grooming, gave him food, and when required, a place to stay in his own house where five other family members lived. He was picked up by Mumbai Indians on the second day of the IPL 2022 mega auction. And that’s how that nine-year-old boy, once playing in the bylanes of Chandrayangutta locality in Hyderabad, and possessing an attractive batting stance, cuts and pulls shots, grew into a 19-year-old Tilak Varma, with a Rs 1.7 crore Indian Premier League (IPL) deal. ![]() When an electrician father failed to brighten his son’s cricketing prospects, in came a coach to take care of all the expenses, and go beyond. ![]()
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