‘A Large Dream To Meet Virat Kohli’: WPL 2025’s Rs 1.9 Crore Purchase Simran Sheikh – News18
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Simran Shaikh was once the costliest signing within the WPL 2025 public sale.
Simran Shaikh (L) and Virat Kohli. (PC: X)
Gujarat Giants’ new signing Simran Shaikh published her two giant desires on Tuesday — incomes the India jersey and assembly former males’s captain Virat Kohli. The Giants signed Sheikh for a whopping Rs. 1.9 crore, the most important quantity spent within the 2025 Girls’s Premier League (WPL) public sale and the second-highest ever on an uncapped participant.
Shaikh is a hard-hitting batter who comes from Mumbai’s Dharavi, the biggest slum in Asia. She was once a part of the Gujarat Giants within the 2023 WPL however couldn’t submit any attention-grabbing performances. Her fortunes became this 12 months when she began to position up constant fast cameos. A large number of the ones got here just lately within the T20 Challenger Trophy, the place she scored 7 sixes and six fours and had a surprising batting strike price of 202.50.
“I love Virat Kohli sir so much. It’s a large dream to satisfy him,” Shaikh stated in keeping with an ANI question. “My adventure has began now. I wish to give my very best, paintings challenging. I need another jersey, which is the India jersey. I can paintings challenging to reach that dream,” the 22-year-old added.
Shaikh’s adventure hasn’t been simple. She and her circle of relatives continued quite a lot of stereotypes and name callings from neighbors in her early years.
“Zindagi bhar yeh gali-kuchar mein nikal diya. Zhopde mein rahe. (Our complete lives we’ve lived close to slender lanes with open gutters within the slum),” Jahid, Shaikh’s father who works as a wireman, advised The Indian Specific just lately. 11 folks in our circle of relatives are living in two rooms. Now with this cash, we can purchase a excellent area and are living a tight lifestyles. Thank God I didn’t concentrate to buddies who advised me to dissuade Simran from enjoying cricket.”
Shaikh additionally stated that she was once thankful that her folks by no means gave as much as the difficulties and allowed her to pursue her dream.
“Muslim women don’t get too many alternatives. Initially, thank God for my mum and dad for supporting me this a lot. No person were given as a lot freedom in my circle of relatives. It’s simply no longer not unusual for Muslim women to be allowed to play sports activities, so thank God for my folks,” Shaikh advised ANI.
