SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Moving to Bhopal, where he had lived in the recent past, was not easy.\u201cBharadwaj sir even takes away our phones. There is only one hour of entertainment, during which we get our mobiles to talk to our parents,\u201d he says.The 23-year-old turns philosophical and adds, \u201cIf you want to achieve something, you have to sacrifice a lot. This is what I believe in.\u201dDahiya, who shot to fame with his exploits in the Delhi Premier League (DPL), was sold to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for Rs3 crore \u2014 ten times his base price of Rs30 lakh. Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals (RR) were involved in a bidding battle for the Delhi wicketkeeper-batter. ![\"Tejasvi](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tejasvi-dahiya.jpg\" "\\"Tejasvi")
<\/p>\nTejasvi Dahiya celebrates after scoring winning runs in the DPL<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat Gauti (Gautam Gambhir) bhai did with KKR, I want to repeat that,\u201d says Dahiya.Dahiya was the leading six-hitter in the DPL, smashing 29 sixes and amassing 339 runs at a strike rate of 190.44.\u201cHe has that attacking mindset. He has always been like this. He and Priyansh (Arya) used to get into six-hitting competitions at the LB Shastri Academy,\u201d says Bharadwaj.\u201cWhen I saw him bat for the first time, I imagined the entire picture. Mujhe lag gaya ki ek heera haath aa gaya hai (I realised I had found a diamond). At 16, I made him the captain of LB Shastri. He has a mature head on his shoulders. Since he keeps wickets as well, he understands and reads the game really well,\u201d adds the coach.But the journey wasn\u2019t easy for Dahiya. He comes from a family of teachers. His father, Ravindra Singh Dahiya, is a maths teacher, while his mother, Babita Dahiya, is an economics teacher in a Delhi government school.\u201cNa unko yakeen ho raha hai, na main digest kar pa raha hoon (Neither my parents nor I can believe it),\u201d says Dahiya. ![\"Tejasvi](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765907890_747_tejasvi-dahiya.jpg\" "\\"Tejasvi")
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Tejasvi Dahiya plays for South Delhi Superstarz in the Delhi Premier Legaue<\/p>\n
\u201cBarring Gujarat Titans, Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants, I went for trials with all the other teams. But I wasn\u2019t sure because of what happened last year,\u201d he adds.Growing up, Dahiya looked up to Virender Sehwag, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli.\u201cI loved the attacking intent of Viru sir, the six-hitting and keeping of MS, and the discipline of Virat bhai,\u201d he says.Dahiya says he is eager to play in the IPL and show the world what he can do.\u201cHum toh Delhi se hain aur hum jaan laga ke khelte hain (I am from Delhi, and we play with full intensity),\u201d says Dahiya.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, coach Bharadwaj says he is excited for his ward but cautions him against reckless shot-making early on. ![\"Tejasvi](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765907890_392_tejasvi-dahiya.jpg\" "\\"Tejasvi")
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\u201cKids these days go for a first-ball six \u2014 there\u2019s a bravado I don\u2019t like. I think he can have a good season and might end up playing all the matches, but he needs to make it count,\u201d says Bharadwaj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rejected at last year\u2019s IPL auction, Tejasvi Singh Dahiya rebuilt himself under a harsh, gurukul-style training regime in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[126346,1721,47661,126345,35046,126348,126347,101,126349,126344,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-319470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bhopal-coaching","tag-cricket","tag-delhi-premier-league","tag-indian-premier-league-auction","tag-kolkata-knight-riders","tag-lb-shastri-academy","tag-sanjay-bharadwaj","tag-sports","tag-sports-training-in-india","tag-tejasvi-singh-dahiya","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Rejected at last year\u2019s IPL auction, Tejasvi Singh Dahiya rebuilt himself under a harsh, gurukul-style training regime in Bhopal. Son of two schoolteachers and armed with a fearless batting mindset, the Delhi batter\u2019s Rs 3 crore KKR deal now offers him a chance to turn sacrifice, discipline and six-hitting flair into an IPL breakthrough. NEW DELHI: Tejasvi Singh Dahiya was shattered after his name came up twice at the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction last year, only to find no bidders.A disappointed Dahiya then received a call from his coach Sanjay Bharadwaj \u2014 a hard taskmaster and one of the doyens of the domestic circuit, who has coached the likes of Gautam Gambhir, Amit Mishra, Joginder Sharma, Unmukt Chand, Nitish Rana and Priyansh Arya. Bharadwaj asked him to book a train ticket to Bhopal, where the Dronacharya Awardee runs a \u2018gurukul\u2019-style coaching setup in the middle of a forest. <\/p>\n