Former all-rounder Sanjay Bangar said that Prasidh Krishna’s evolution as a viable pace option was the massive takeaway for India from the 2025 Test series in England. Having played only three Tests against England, he struggled in the first two games. Prasidh picked up only six wickets at an average of over 55 and an economy of over five as well. However, after missing the following two Tests, Prasidh Krishna returned to the team for the series finale at the Oval as well.

Talking about India’s biggest takeaway from the England series, Bangar said on ESPN Cricinfo, “The emergence of Prasidh Krishna because that also gives you a bit of a comfort that if at all India doesn’t have the services of a Siraj or Bumrah, you still have two bowlers capable of running through sides and causing enough problems even on Indian pitches.”

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However, Sanjay Bangar opined on ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah and how Team India must handle him in future in Test cricket.

“Jasprit Bumrah is invaluable to the T20 setup of the current team and the World Cup is just around the corner. So the team management making the decisions will also have a mid-term view of how to utilize him across formats, which is not the case with Mohammed Siraj. If it’s a five-Test series and Bumrah is going to be available for three Tests, going forward, the learning for the team management would be to play him three in a row and then rest him totally,” he added.

“But since they won’t encounter such a scenario for the rest of this WTC cycle, whatever workload management has had to happen with Jasprit Bumrah has already happened. So this question won’t come up till the end of this WTC cycle. He also needn’t play all the T20 matches in the build-up to the World Cup,” Sanjay Bangar concluded.