HYDERABAD: India skipper Rohit Sharma’s lavish reward on Mohammed Siraj calling him a ‘rare talent’, speaks of the exceptional rise of the Hyderabad pacer. Since his Test debut in 2020, Siraj has grown by leaps and bounds and has been hovering to larger heights with every sequence.
However, regardless of how excessive he soars and the way a lot success he attains on the varied cricket grounds internationally, the 28-year-old Hyderabadi has remained rooted and grounded to his old flame – the Maidan. He is fiercely loyal to the bottom in First Lancer, the place he began taking part in the sport with a tennis ball and doesn’t miss a chance to spend time there at any time when he’s at residence. Siraj has additionally not forgotten his childhood associates and makes positive that he catches up with them ceaselessly.
The Indian workforce landed within the metropolis final night and although Siraj would have been drained after the Sunday night time sport and the following journey, he turned up on the Maidan and spent an hour along with his associates on the floor. It turned out to be a ‘Chai pe charcha’ session. On a chilly late night, the buddies mentioned nothing however cricket over piping scorching Irani chai.
“Siraj came to meet his friends and we spent an hour (from 9 pm to 10 pm) discussing his performance in the previous game where he took four wickets. He said that he went all out for the fifth wicket but unfortunately it didn’t happen. Inshallah, he said, he hoped to get it soon,” his closest buddy Mohd Shafi instructed ToI on Tuesday.
Incidentally, Shafi was Siraj’s captain once they used to play tennis ball cricket and the 2 are inseparable – brothers from totally different moms. “There were around 15 of us last evening. Siraj never fails to meet his friends and spend time with them. He is still the same old Siraj and doesn’t behave any differently though he is a cricket superstar now,” Shafi stated.
The associates are trying ahead to watching Siraj play on residence floor within the Indian jersey. “I have watched all his IPL games here but seeing him in the Indian team jersey will be an altogether different feeling. International cricket has a different aura, and it is a dream for every cricketer to play for India. Though none of us could make a career out of cricket we are thrilled to see Siraj doing so well. He represents all the cricketers of the Maidan,” Shafi stated and added that greater than a dozen associates will probably be within the stands cheering for him and hoping that Siraj will get his first ODI five-wicket haul on residence floor.
However, regardless of how excessive he soars and the way a lot success he attains on the varied cricket grounds internationally, the 28-year-old Hyderabadi has remained rooted and grounded to his old flame – the Maidan. He is fiercely loyal to the bottom in First Lancer, the place he began taking part in the sport with a tennis ball and doesn’t miss a chance to spend time there at any time when he’s at residence. Siraj has additionally not forgotten his childhood associates and makes positive that he catches up with them ceaselessly.
The Indian workforce landed within the metropolis final night and although Siraj would have been drained after the Sunday night time sport and the following journey, he turned up on the Maidan and spent an hour along with his associates on the floor. It turned out to be a ‘Chai pe charcha’ session. On a chilly late night, the buddies mentioned nothing however cricket over piping scorching Irani chai.
“Siraj came to meet his friends and we spent an hour (from 9 pm to 10 pm) discussing his performance in the previous game where he took four wickets. He said that he went all out for the fifth wicket but unfortunately it didn’t happen. Inshallah, he said, he hoped to get it soon,” his closest buddy Mohd Shafi instructed ToI on Tuesday.
Incidentally, Shafi was Siraj’s captain once they used to play tennis ball cricket and the 2 are inseparable – brothers from totally different moms. “There were around 15 of us last evening. Siraj never fails to meet his friends and spend time with them. He is still the same old Siraj and doesn’t behave any differently though he is a cricket superstar now,” Shafi stated.
The associates are trying ahead to watching Siraj play on residence floor within the Indian jersey. “I have watched all his IPL games here but seeing him in the Indian team jersey will be an altogether different feeling. International cricket has a different aura, and it is a dream for every cricketer to play for India. Though none of us could make a career out of cricket we are thrilled to see Siraj doing so well. He represents all the cricketers of the Maidan,” Shafi stated and added that greater than a dozen associates will probably be within the stands cheering for him and hoping that Siraj will get his first ODI five-wicket haul on residence floor.
Siraj’s household too will probably be in attendance and the cricketer, himself, is thrilled about it. “It will be my first international match on home ground, and I look forward to it. I had played IPL games, but this will be different. My family will be there and so will my friends and it will be a happy feeling to be playing an international game in front of them,” Siraj had remarked after the third ODI towards Sri Lanka.
But the one individual whom Siraj will probably be lacking within the stands is his father – Mohammed Ghaus, who handed away in November 2020 when Siraj was in Australia. Without Ghaus’ assist, Siraj wouldn’t have been capable of pursue cricket.