The lone cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir to play in IPL 2018- Manzoor Dar worked as a laborer to supplement his family income. The right-handed batsman was looking for ways to make more money to take care of his four brothers and three sisters, all of them younger to him. It was then that Manzoor was asked by a local coach to try and participate in club cricket as he spotted him hitting huge sixes. More matches meant more money and Manzoor would never say no, working in the night as a security guard and then with the rise of the sun go back to his team for the match.
After nine T20 matches for the state team in which, he averages 30.83 with the bat. Since January last year Dar was grabbed by the IPL franchise- Kings XI Punjab for 60 lakhs and although many turned millionaires over-night, Manzoor’s family might have been the happiest. The Kings XI Punjab squad boasts of the lone cricketer from the valley of Kashmir- Manzoor Dar. Dar’s story is one of the most inspiring tales of IPL. From working as a daily wage laborer at 60 rupees per day to signing a deal of 60 lakhs with the Punjab franchise, Manzoor Dar has seen it all.
