Mujeeb Zadran: The Afghan cricketer who grew up in a mansion

Armed with a googly, a carrom ball and a genuine of break Mujeeb has created quite an impression in ongoing under nineteen World Cup.

Mujeeb seems unfazed in the luxury surrounding of a plush hotel in Christchurch as he prepares to reveal his cricketing journey. It's not uncommon to be mesmerized by a lavishness of a 5 star hotel, and given the hardship players from Afghanistan have to comfort to play cricket at the highest Level One would expect an under 19 player to be donated too. Mujeeb, however is different.

Inside the perimeter wall of the mentioned is also a set of cricketing facility that is known as the Noor Cricket Academy. It has been set up by Mujeeb first cousin and current Afghanistan player Noor Ali zadran.

" I lost my father when I was very young so I was raised by my moms brother side of the family in that house",Mujeeb added.

Despite the cricketing facility in his own Yaad Mujeeb only discovered his love for the game after watching the girl is the national team at the 2012 T20 World Cup point after each game he would pick up a tennis ball flick it around in his fingers and then start playing the game with his neighborhood kids.

Gradually he started going to Noor Academy. That is where he was started to play the game and started training. He must have been around 11-12 years of age. Then once he knew about the game he went to the khost Provision Academy.

Amrita googly, a carrom ball and a genuine of breaker, Muheeb would create headline across Afghanistan with some stunning performance in the under 16 tournament and that would lead to him getting picked up into the national under 19 team.

And now he became only 3rd Afghanistan player to be signed by an IPL team for barnstorming amount of INR 4 crore and amount that even a guy who grew up in the comfort of a Mansion can do with. Mujeeb has already created history in becoming the youngest player from Afghanistan to be picked in an IPL auction and along the way has also dismiss the theory that every player from his Nation Hails from plagued background.