Anaya Bangar reacts with joy as CSK sign 'close friend' Sarfaraz Khan at IPL 2026 auction

Anaya Bangar, the kid of erstwhile India batter Sanjay Bangar, shared a infinitesimal of joyousness aft adjacent person Sarfaraz Khan secured an IPL instrumentality with Chennai Super Kings astatine the IPL 2026 mini-auction held successful Abu Dhabi connected Tuesday. Sarfaraz, who past featured successful the IPL successful 2023, was picked up by CSK astatine his basal terms of Rs 75 lakh.

The signing marked a important infinitesimal for the batter, who has endured repeated setbacks astatine the auction array successful caller years.

Soon aft the announcement, Sarfaraz took to Instagram to explicit his gratitude, posting a video connected his communicative with the message, “Thank you truthful much, CSK for giving maine caller life.”

Anaya reacted to CSK’s invited station for Sarfaraz by dropping occurrence and clapping manus emojis successful the comments, reflecting her excitement astatine the development.

The enslaved betwixt the 2 goes backmost respective years. During IPL 2025, Anaya had visited Sarfaraz’s residence to walk clip with him and his family. She aboriginal shared pictures connected societal media featuring Sarfaraz and his father, Naushad Khan. In a photograph posted by Anaya, Sarfaraz mentioned that the friends were gathering aft a spread of 2 to 3 years. Anaya captioned the station by recalling their aboriginal days, penning that they held bats earlier phones and had been friends since the beginning.

Last year, Anaya had publically spoken astir her idiosyncratic travel pursuing hormonal replacement therapy and sex reaffirming surgery. Formerly known arsenic Aryan, Anaya is an jock and had played age-group cricket, pursuing successful her father’s footsteps. Sarfaraz, meanwhile, has backed his IPL comeback with beardown performances connected the home circuit. In the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, helium has scored 256 runs from six innings, averaging 64.00 with a strike-rate of 182.85.