Former India player Aakash Chopra has praised Mohammed Siraj for bowling a great spell in the Gujarat Titans’ (GT) IPL 2025 win against RCB. He also added that the former RCB pacer didn’t get carried away by the emotions of playing an away game at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium as well. Siraj registered figures of 3/19 in four overs as GT restricted RCB to 169/8, and then they achieved the target with eight wickets and 13 deliveries in hand.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “The two big stories were Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna. Mohammed Siraj – welcome back, he returned home and bowled incredibly well. Cricket is a game of emotions. Mohammed Siraj is an emotional guy, but he doesn’t play emotionally. You don’t get carried away. Emotions shouldn’t get the better of you, and when we saw Mohammed Siraj, it seemed like he was cranking it up. He was bowling fast and going till 145 kph. He was bowling gun-barrel straight. Phil Salt got a life as well, but then the ball went and hit his stumps. He was outstanding.”
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“Prasidh Krishna bowled an over in the powerplay but then bowled a lot with the old ball. He has not been used as a new-ball bowler. You see Ashish Nehra’s imprint in that. He knows how to extract the best from everyone. No one is bowling slower ones, and he is not asking Prasidh Krishna to bowl full and get the ball to swing,” Chopra again shared.
Reflecting on RCB’s batting, Aakash Chopra shared that they posted a below-par total, stating that RCB were overaggressive at the start.
“You didn’t score the runs that should have been scored. That is the end of the story. The truth is that all teams will feel slightly guilty as they are not pacing their innings well. They start as though they are sitting atop a flying horse, crash-land suddenly, and then try to get up. However, unlike KKR and SRH, they at least played the entire 20 overs. Tim David came in the end and hit a few decent shots. Before that, Liam Livingstone saved their honor a little, and they reached at least a fighting total,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
