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Gulam Dasthagiri visited the advocate’s house and stabbed him to death

He managed to break from the 'shackles' of law when he was taken to Osmania General Hospital (OGH) for treatment, only to be nabbed again very soon

Mohammed Ghouse had passed away in November before the start of the four-Test series, when Siraj was in Australia with the Indian team

“He would have been a very happy man today if he had been alive. I had tears in my eyes. He always dreamt that I would one day play for the country,’’ he said.

Kin of pacer, who made his Test debut against Australia, were excited while they followed game on television

Siraj's brother Ismail talks about his brother’s fairytale journey to the top and how his family is super excited when he will make Test debut in Melbourne on Saturday

However, with the prevailing Covid quarantine rules in place in Sydney, the Hyderabad cricketer will not be able to travel for his father’s last rites

He, along with his wife and son, had contested the GHMC elections in 2016 from Shahalibanda, Puranapul and Ghanzi Bazaar on Congress ticket and all the three had lost

For a boy, who didn’t have money to buy cricket shoes, father being an auto-rickshaw driver and mother working as a maid, it has been one of the fascinating stories in Indian cricket