After IPL, the auction for Women's Premier League (WPL) 2025 took place on Sunday 15 December. During this time, Gujarat Giants bid Rs 1.90 crore for 22-year-old all-rounder Simran Sheikh and made her the most expensive player of this season. Let us tell you that this time his base price was only Rs 10 lakh. But do you know how he came from the slums of Dharavi to become a millionaire? Let us know.

How did the wireman's daughter become a millionaire?

The last season of WPL was very bad for Simran Shaikh. No team had bid for him and he remained unsold. After this, he got a place in the UP Warriors team but had to spend the entire season sitting in the dugout. Then he made a comeback in the domestic season and scored a lot of runs for Mumbai, the results of which were seen in the auction. Simran grew up in Dharavi, Asia's largest slum. His father is a wireman. After leaving there, he has set out on the journey of becoming a millionaire.

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When Gujarat made a bid of Rs 1.9 crore for him, his father was very happy. Initially she used to learn this game with boys, so her neighbors used to instigate Simran's father to stop her from playing. They were asked to learn household work. However, Simran's father never stopped playing. When the WPL auction ended, the same people came to congratulate his father.

There was no money for cricket kit

Simran Sheikh looked very emotional after the WPL auction. She told that the night before the auction she was just hoping to be bought by any team. But ever since Gujarat Giants bought him, there has been a queue of phone calls. Simran revealed that there was a time when she did not even have money to buy a basic cricket kit. But today he has got so much money because of cricket. After Kashvi Gautam, she is the second most expensive player in the Gujarat team. Kashvi was bought by Gujarat for Rs 2 crore last season.