“My father (Santosh) was unemployed until last year before he got a job as a watchman in Dadar. We survived on whatever my grandmother earned from selling fish. That’s the reason I was never sent to school.

I didn’t even know what a school looked like, until June last year,” Rajesh told MiD DAY yesterday, after Al-Barkaat, who posted 444-8 in their first innings, bowled out their opponents for 164 and then reduced them to 14-2 as they followed on.