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So, who’s Jasia Akhter, the first & only #Kashmir cricketer to get an #WPL contract?

Daughter of a daily-wage labourer from Shopian in south Kashmir, shifted to Punjab to play cricket, Harmanpreet Kaur connection and much more! Read on ⤵️
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Jasia was an athlete from the childhood. Initially, she played kabaddi and other sports before being introduced to cricket by an athletic coach. But seeing the condition of women’s cricket in J&K, she decided to shift to Punjab. But it wasn’t easy. ⤵️
She struggled her way through to make it to Punjab team. Couldn’t do much initially but some help and motivation from the current Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur changed her life.

“If I would want anyone to bat for my life, it has to be Harman." She told in an interview in 2019.
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"No one supported her. So she went all alone for it. Even my neighbours told me not to send her outside, that it was not good.

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But I was very confident that my daughter would handle everything," says #JasiaAkhtar's father.

Gul Mohammed Wani, works as a daily labourer in #Kashmir's Shopian and earns just enough to support his four-member family.
Playing for the #Rajasthan team for the past two years, Jasia is among the top players in ODI rankings for women's domestic cricket in India with 500 plus runs as well as in T20 rankings with 590 runs.
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Welcome to #WPLAuction

Follow real-time bidding here in this thread. 🔽
Smriti Mandhana goes to Royal Challengers Bangalore
for INR 3.4 crore

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Harmanpreet Kaur goes to Mumbai Indians for INR 1.8 crore
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