indore one thing that straightaway comes to your mind when you meet the ojhas vinay and vandana is their simplicity and that reflects in the way they have brought up their children naman and ananya both are extremely humble and downtoearth both had different dreams different hobbies and different ambitions but the simplicity factor remained common throughout naman had deep inclination towards cricket while his brother ananya one year his junior always loved her academics its not easy having two children exactly opposite to each other but vinay a bank employee and vandana a school teacher made sure both had an opportunity to prosper in their respective fields the couple is now happy and content to see both their children have made name for themselves and doing well while ananya an iit passout is settled in the us while naman has become an international player and is set to make his test debut when naman started playing it was a different time you couldnt even think of taking up cricket as a profession but he didnt give us any options he was so passionate about the game that there was no point telling him to focus on studies for him it was always cricket first and after some time we accepted that he was born to play cricket vinay told toi at their residence in indore the parents had to make a lot of sacrifices for naman they had to shift naman to indore from ratlam for better coaching and facilities i was a bit apprehensive about naman taking up cricket as a profession but my friend ravindra pal goswami convinced me to allow him to chase his dream so i was prepared that if he wouldnt get a job we will open a shop for him i was ready to invest my provident fund but god was kind to us naman got good guidance at every step he didnt choose his coaches his coaches chose him he was very lucky to have such fantastic and committed coaches right from the outset vinay said naman never liked studies and would always scrape by with passing marks he is not even a graduate when he was in std x some of his teachers told me that the principal wont allow him to appear for examination as he was sure naman wouldnt get passing marks vandana who was a teacher in the same school where naman studied said i told vandana to tell namans teachers that i would ok if my son failed but i wont allow him to be deprived of appearing in the examination finally he managed to pass the exam and scored 50 marks in mathematics vinay said once naman completed his ssc he shifted base to indore and his life changed for better his mentor sanjay jagdale was very angry with us he wanted naman to shift at indore a year earlier but i wanted him to complete std x it was a different life for