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Six individuals live in a small 10-by-10 room buried within a small, filthy alley in Borgaon village, Madhya Pradesh's Pandhurna district headquarters. The family lives, eats, and sleeps in a single room with a small connected kitchen. When someone comes over, there isn't enough room for a chair. The room is rented for Rs 1,200 per month.
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In a moment that will change their lives, the family's years of struggle have finally paid off. When the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) acquired 23-year-old left-arm bowler Mangesh Yadav for an incredible ₹5.20 crore in the IPL 2026 auction, his life completely changed. The winning bid was an incredible 1,633% rise and the stuff of fantasies for a participant whose starting price was set at ₹30 lakh.
Mangesh Yadav will play for Rajat Patidar's Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 winners. Some of the biggest names in international cricket, such as Phil Salt, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and Virat Kohli, will be in the same dressing room as the 23-year-old pacer.
This multi-crore agreement is set against a backdrop of incredible fortitude. Mangesh is the son of truck driver Ram Awadh Yadav, who frequently took out loans to pay for his son's training, tournament travel, and cricket equipment. The six-person family, which includes Mangesh's parents and three sisters, has rented a small room in Borgaon that measures 10 by 10 feet.
Mangesh is an all-arounder cricket player and a left-arm bowler, according to his coach Utsav Bairagi. He used to travel 70 km each day from Borgaon to Chhindwara for practice before moving to Noida. One of his unique traits is that he would gift the ground crew any awards he won in competitions. All he would take home was the trophy.
A few years ago, Mangesh was called up by RCB to work as a net bowler. Due to his previous obligations with the state side, he was unable to attend. Even though he didn't get to bowl to one of his favourite players at the time, Virat Kohli, he will now share the dressing room with him in the 2026 IPL.
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