{"id":1491,"date":"2020-11-22T11:10:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T05:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=74864"},"modified":"2020-11-22T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T05:40:49","slug":"captain-kohli-and-bcci-president-sourav-ganguly-appreciate-sirajs-commitment-for-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/captain-kohli-and-bcci-president-sourav-ganguly-appreciate-sirajs-commitment-for-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Kohli and BCCI President Sourav Ganguly appreciate Siraj\u2019s commitment for the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian pacer Mohammed Siraj lost his father on Friday in Hyderabad. He was in Australia, training for the upcoming tour against the Aussies down under when he heard about his father\u2019s demise. The news broke him as for him, his father was his biggest support system. The team management was with him all the time in this tough time. Indian captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri were also there with him during this time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>BCCI released their official statement on Saturday confirming the news that Siraj was offered to go back home to be with his family at these challenging times. Siraj refused this as he said that he was on \u2018national duty\u2019 and nothing should come between him and his duty for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Siraj\u2019s father was suffering from lung ailment and was admitted to the hospital in the month of October right before the RCB\u2019s match against KKR. In that match Siraj delivered his best spell as he completely blew away the KKR top order and registered his best figures by taking 3 wickets and gave away just 8 runs in his 4 over quota. He won the Man of the Match award in that game. In a video posted by the RCB official handle he said that he was worried throughout the match as his father was admitted to the hospital just a day before this match. He went on to add that he was truly relieved when he got to know that his father was back home.<\/p>\n<p>His father (age 53) was a auto driver who made sure that his son followed his passion and went on to represent the nation at the highest level. Siraj said that his father always said that his son will make the country proud. He further added that he was thankful that his father saw him playing in the national colors but his father always dreamt to see him play in the tests, unfortunately his father is no more there with him to see him in his debut test series.<\/p>\n<p>BCCI director Sourav Ganguly on his twitter handle posted a tweet praising the move by Siraj to stay back and play for India.<\/p>\n<p>If Siraj had decided to go back to India, he would have to go through the 14 day quarantine again as per the rules of Australian Government.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">May  Mohammed siraj have a lot of strength to overcome this loss..lots of good wishes for his success in this trip.. tremendous character <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bcci<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SGanguly99\/status\/1330072373131943939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian pacer Mohammed Siraj lost his father on Friday in Hyderabad. He was in Australia, training for the upcoming tour\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":24602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[928,132,95],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-mohammad-siraj","tag-ravi-shastri","tag-sourav-ganguly"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}