00:03That's Aakip Nabi Dar, the Kashmiri Pacer who took 60 wickets and won the Ranji Trophy
00:07Final for JNK, their first Ranji Trophy win in 66 years.
00:12And 29-year-old Aakip from Shiri Baramulla was right at the center of it, the guy who
00:17made it happen.
00:20Legends of the game like Saurav Ganguly have said Aakip deserves a spot in the Indian team.
00:25BCCI Secretary Devajit Sakya has said selectors will definitely take note of the peser.
00:30But rewind four months.
00:32At the Indian Premier League 2026 mini auction, Nabi was picked up by Delhi Capitals for a
00:37whopping 8.40 crores.
00:39Back home in Shiri, his family had broken down in tears.
00:44In Baramulla, his father works as a government school teacher who wanted his son to become
00:49a doctor.
00:50Cricket was never part of the plan.
00:52But passion has a way of rewriting life scripts.
00:54When Aakip made it to the under 19 cricket team, his father stopped resisting and became
00:59his biggest supporter.
01:01In the 2025-26 Ranji season, Aakip basically carried JNK's bowling attack, super steady and
01:08sharp, nabbing five wickets for 54 runs.
01:10In the final itself, to finally grab that trophy everyone said was impossible for the team.
01:15From dreaming of playing in the IPL to winning the Ranji Trophy, everyone was rooting for just
01:20one thing.
01:21No.
01:22No.
01:23No.
01:31No.
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