“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.
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
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