Indian cricketer Mohammed Siraj has now formally assumed the role of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) duty, after reporting to Director General of Police (DGP) Jitender on Friday, October 11. A few days back Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy announced that Siraj would be made to join Group-I governmental position stating that the state was committed to taking care of sports and sporting personalities and at the same time trying to groom next generation talent. Interestingly, for this post, Siraj was exempted from his educational qualifications.

“For a Group-I job, the required educational qualification is a degree. Siraj has passed intermediate (12th class) but we have given the exemption to provide him the Group-I job,” the CM said.

On the cricketing front, Siraj recently played for India in its two-test Test match series against Bangladesh. He has further been picked for India’s forthcoming three-match Test series versus New Zealand and is expected to play a big role in the Test side for the five-match series in Australia.

India Vs New Zealand, Test Series: Full Squad

Mohammed Siraj was recently picked in India’s squad for Test series against New Zealand. It will be a three-match Test series and the first Test of the series against New Zealand will be played in Bengaluru on October 16. While, the second match will take place on October 24 at Pune. Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium is set to play the third Test from November 1. This will be their last Test series.

India full squad for New Zealand Test series: Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (WK) Kuldeep Yadav, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Akash Deep, Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohd. Siraj, KL Rahul, Axar Patel.

Travelling Reserves: Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mayank Yadav and Prasidh Krishna