‘Like a dream’: Rs 2 crore win makes Kashmiri man millionaire overnight
India Today
Waseem Raja became a millionaire overnight when he won Rs 2 crores on an online fantasy cricket platform, Dream 11.
A young man from South Kashmir’s Bijbehara area became an overnight millionaire by winning Rs 2 crores on an online fantasy cricket platform Dream 11.
While talking to India Today, Waseem Raja from Shalgam village in J&K’s Anantnag district, said that he was asleep on late Saturday night, when some friends called him up and informed him that he was placed first in Dream 11 following which he realised that he had won around Rs 2 crores.
As the news broke out, people started congratulating him and his family. "I have been trying my luck for the last two years by creating fantasy teams in the IPL," he said.
"Becoming a millionaire overnight is like a dream. This will help us to overcome poverty as we belong to a financially weak section," he said. My mother, he said, is ailing. "Now I will be able to treat her."
Videos went viral on social media in which people can be seen congratulating Waseem Raja.
Dream11 is an Indian fantasy sports platform that allows users to play fantasy cricket, hockey, football, kabaddi, and basketball.
In April 2019, Dream 11 became the first Indian gaming company to become a unicorn.
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