For someone who has come through the grind and lost many battles, including when his father died of a brain haemorrhage, in his journey to become a cricketer, Mukesh Kumar knows well what it takes to be selected for the Indian Test team. "Kehte hai na agar aap Test nahin khele toh kya khele... (Like they say, what have you done if you didn't play Tests)," the fiesty Bengal pacer told PTI after being selected in the Test and ODI squads for the upcoming tour of the West Indies. "My dream is now in front of me. I always wanted to be here -- to play Tests for India. And, I've finally arrived." What now flashes through his mind is a myriad of memories from his village Kankar Kund in the remote Gopalganj district of Bihar to sleeping in the dormitory at Eden Gardens in Kolkata where he had first come in 2012 to help his father in his taxi business.