From Instagram reels to IPL auction pool, how leg-spinner Izaz Sawaria almost got a big break

Izaz Sawaria

Though disappointed that he missed out on an IPL contract, Izaz Sawaria said, "It was still an achievement that my name was in the IPL auction. I’m taking it in a positive way." Sawaria has around 38,200 Instagram followers.

A net session and a leg-spinner recording and uploading bowling sessions on Instagram using his phone. Ten months after he posted his first reel, Izaz Sawaria’s name entered the coveted player pool of the IPL auction. Even if it didn’t end with a team raising a paddle for him, Sawaria’s reels to auction story is unusual.

“I just felt I should put them (reels) out there. You never know what might happen in the future,” Sawaria, the son of an Indian Air Force officer, tells the reporters.