00:00Who's the Kashmir peser picked by Delhi capitals for 8.40 crore?
00:08The answer was in Shiri, Baramala, where 29-year-old Aukip Nabi Dar's father,
00:13Ghulam Nabi, broke down in tears.
00:16Aukip grew up in a family where cricket was never part of the plan.
00:20His father, a government school teacher, had dreamed of him becoming a doctor.
00:23But Aukip's love for the game was unstoppable.
00:26Slowly, that passion won over his father,
00:28who became his biggest supporter after Aukip made it into the under-19 cricket team.
00:41On 16 December, that support paid off.
00:44Aukip Nabi was picked by Delhi capitals for 8.40 crore in the IPL 2026 mini auction.
00:50The first bid came from Delhi capitals, triggering a brief but tense battle with other franchises
00:54before the deal was sealed.
00:55Back home, celebrations erupted.
01:00Friends, neighbours and relatives danced to drums, distributed sweets and offered prayers.
01:05Shiri had reason to rejoice.
01:07The boy from the town had made it big.
01:09Aukip's rise was not sudden.
01:11Within Ranji cricket or the shorter formats,
01:13he kept finding ways to stand out for Jammu and Kashmir.
01:16Now, he joins the list of Jammu and Kashmir pesers in the IPL
01:20alongside Umran Malik and Yudhavir Singh Charaak.
01:23But in Shiri, this story is more than numbers.
01:25It is about a father's pride, a community's joy,
01:28a dream chased and finally caught.
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