India pacer Prasidh Krishna has been in very good form with the ball as he rattled the Sri Lankan batting order with precise fast bowling in the hosts’ first innings of the ongoing second Test, being played in Colombo.
India had made 503/9d thanks to centuries by Devdutt Padikkal and Dhruv Jurel and fifties by Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant.
In response, Sri Lanka lost a few early wickets courtesy of Prasidh Krishna. The tall Karnataka pacer accounted for openers Lahiru Udana, debutant Kamil Mishara, and Kamindu Mendis thus far in the opening session of the third day.
Before the start of the third day’s play, Prasidh Krishna was interviewed by the official broadcasters, and he spoke about different facets of his bowling and what aggression meant to him. Krishna said aggression is not necessarily about showing emotion or getting into a verbal battle with the opposition.
“Yeah, I would like to say so. I mean, aggression can come out in different ways, and for me it is about what I'm doing when I'm bowling. It's effortless for people to get away or be distracted by what's happening on the pitch. There's too much happening; there's not too much happening, but I think the focus is still to come in and bowl those areas with full effort,” Krishna told the broadcasters before the start of Day 3’s play.
Krishna opened his account by dismissing Lahiru Udana, who was opened up by the pacer, and Yashasvi Jaiswal took an excellent diving catch in the gully.
“Yeah, I think it was; there’s something in the pitch, of course. Maybe stopped a little bit. There was a bit of seam, and I think credit goes to Jaiswal for the catch that he took. It was an exceptional one. We have been putting in some effort on the field in practice, so I think it just paid off,” he said.
“100%. "I believe that 50% of the job involves bowling the ball to the right spot and getting an edge, while the other 50% is about successfully taking the catch, and we have been quite effective at both. I think it's also important to do the simple things right, and we have been doing that well, which is evident," he added.
Krishna also discussed the necessity of modifying his length based on the pitch. According to him, the Indian coaching and analysis team collaborates to determine the best strategy for every surface.
“Length is something that keeps changing with pitches that we play on. So, we sit with analysts, coaches, and everyone and decide on what kind of length we want to be bowling on different surfaces. And yeah, natural length was something that I could say when I was not playing for the country, but when I'm here, I need to be bowling every length that the team wants, and I'm trying to do that,” he concluded.
(ANI inputs)
