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Watch: Tilak Varma's Friends Go Bonkers As Mumbai Indians Purchase Youngster For 8 Times His Base Price

Young cricketer Tilak Varma was on cloud nine after he was bought for eight times his base price in the IPL 2022 auction. Mumbai Indians (MI) and SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) were involved in a bidding war for the 19-year-old, who had a base price at Rs 20 lakh. MI eventually came out on top and purchased him for Rs 1.7 crore. Varma was following the auction with his friends and they cheered him on frantically after MI got him. The franchise took to Twitter to post a video of the moment MI acquired Varma as his friends screamed with joy and happiness. The video was captioned as, "That exact moment when all your dreams come true. Here's a jaadu ki jhappi from your #OneFamily, Tilak!"

IPL Auction 2022: Electrician's Son Tilak Varma Hopes To Justify "Crorepati" Tag

When an electrician father failed to brighten his son's cricketing prospects, in came a coach to take care of all the expenses, and go beyond that. And that's how that nine-year-old boy, once playing in the bylanes of Chandrayangutta in Hyderabad, and possessing an attractive batting stance, cuts and pulls shots, grew into a 19-year-old Tilak Varma, with a Rs 1.7 crore IPL deal. He was picked up by Mumbai Indians on the second day of the IPL 2022 mega auction.