Updated On: 22 January, 2021 08:05 AM IST | Mumbai | PTI
Siraj, who decided to stay put in Australia with the team and miss his father’s last rites, drove straight from Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport to the graveyard and paid his last respects to his departed father Mohammed Ghouse

India captain Ajinkya Rahane gets a grand welcome from his neighbours and fans at his residence in Matunga yesterday. Pic/PTI; (right) India pacer Mohammed Siraj offers prayers at his father`s grave in Hyderabad yesterday. Pic/PTI
Chants of ‘aala re aala Ajinkya aala’ headlined a red carpet welcome for Ajinkya Rahane on his triumphant return from Australia with some other teammates but the mood was sombre in Hyderabad as one of his warriors, Mohammed Siraj, headed straight to his father’s grave.
The chants [meaning here comes our Ajinkya] were heard amid the beating of the traditional dhol tasha and showering of flower petals at Rahane’s residential complex.