Pacer Mohammed Siraj is at the moment one of the vital deadly bowlers on this planet. Making his debut in 2017, he went on to play eight T20Is, 24 ODIs, and 18 Tests and scalped a complete of 101 worldwide wickets. Apart from this, he has been a high performer within the Indian Premier League and the very best wicket-taker for the Royal Challengers Bangalore within the ongoing version, to this point. However, his journey has been filled with struggles as he got here from a humble background in Hyderabad. Throwing gentle on his preliminary days, Siraj narrated an unheard story the place he left KL Rahul fuming within the nets.

Speaking on Gaurav Kapoor’s chat show “Breakfast With Champions”, the pacer revealed that earlier than making his debut for RCB, he was a internet bowler and was bowling to Rahul throughout a observe session.

“I had performed with the Under-23 team. I had played one match in the Ranji Trophy. I had taken a wicket but then I was dropped for the next two matches and I was out of the team. Next year it was RCB vs Sunrisers (Hyderabad) and I was a net bowler then. I bowled bouncer after bouncer to KL Rahul, and he got angry. He told me ‘khali bouncer hi aata hain tujhe’ (do you only know how to bowl bouncers). I said ‘Bhaiya I know other stuff too,” stated Siraj.

Siraj additional spoke that how he acquired into Hyderabad’s Ranji Trophy squad

“Bharat Sir develop into fairly impressed. So he went and requested (VVS) Laxman sir, ‘who is that this boy?’. Next yr Arun sir turned the coach of Hyderabad for the Ranji Trophy. The selectors weren’t deciding on me for the Ranji Trophy. So Arun sir stated, ‘I would like this boy within the staff. If you pay attention then solely I’ll be a part of the affiliation, in any other case not.'” said Siraj.

“So Arun sir came and picked me and I was the highest wicket-taker that year,” he added.

Siraj has scalped a complete of 16 wickets in 12 matches within the present version of IPL, together with one four-wicket haul.

Talking about RCB, the Faf du Plessis-led staff are at the moment standing on the fifth place on the factors desk with a complete of six wins out of 12 matches. They will now be going up in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad of their subsequent match on Thursday.