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Left-arm seamer Thangarasu Natarajan was finding it surreal when the bids against his name zoomed at a breakneck pace during the IPL auction on Monday in Bengaluru.
The little known 25-year-old’s life changed in a matter of few minutes as Rs. 10 lakh base price saw a quantum 30-time jump reaching Rs. 3 crore with former India opener Virender Sehwag vigorously raising the pedal for Kings XI Punjab.
Perhaps he remembered the days of hardships when his mother ran a street side stall and father worked as a porter at railway station. And the then 20-year-old, one of the five children, was plying his trade at tennis ball games in his native Salem.
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