Any young cricketer who picks the bat or the ball in his lifetime and aspires to be a professional cricketer has to go through the long and hard route of proving himself right from the bottom to make it to the top. The story of Mohammad Azharudeen the sensation from Kerala, who stormed the world with a whirlwind 137 in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament against Mumbai, put the IPL teams to notice with the knock. The youngster was picked by Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore in what will be a dream fulfilled and one of his potential targets checked off the bucket list.
The message sent by Virat Kohli
Mohammad Azharudeen is a name many might look at with certain amount of nostalgia as the soon to be 27 year old Kerala cricketer was named after the former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin. The Kerala born cricketer put the world to notice of his swashbuckling batting with an attacking 137 earlier this year against Mumbai at Wankhede. The IPL auctions saw him being picked by RCB which was one of his wish-list. Recently Mohammad Azharudeen revealed the text message sent by Virat Kohli the RCB captain sent post the youngster’s selection for RCB. The tweet read “Welcome to RCB, all the best. Virat here” the youngster must have been overjoyed but he found enough composure to reply with “that means my world”
RCB with a star-studded team
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Royal Challengers Bangalore went for broke and made two expensive buys in Kyle Jamieson and Glenn Maxwell, the Kohli led side also got the experience of Dan Christian and few of the young Indian players to make up the team which also included the explosive talent of Mohammad Azharudeen who would now want to repose the faith of Kohli and RCB with some huge scores and a possible role in their first prospective title win this season.