Former Australia wicketkeeper-batter Brad Haddin applauded Mohammed Siraj after the Indian pace bowler guided his side to a famous six-run win over England at The Oval, London. With their victory in the fifth Test, India drew the five-match series 2-2 as well.

Commenting on the Indian bowler’s stunning show, Haddin said on the YouTube channel, ‘LiSTNR Sport’: “I think Siraj likes being the leader of the attack. He is one of those guys that he wants the ball in big situations. Yes, he makes mistakes, but he doesn’t shy away from wanting the occasion. If you have players like that who aren’t afraid to make mistakes, who can get under the skin of opposition because of the way that they want to be in the game, they are the guys you want. He wanted the ball in that last hour of play. There’s no way in the world he didn’t want to bowl every over to win the game. He dropped the catch. That’s a bad miss, your details got to be better there when you are catching that. But that also didn’t define him by the Test match. We are not going to talk about that catch now.”

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Shubman Gill also shone with the bat in his first series as Team India’s new Test skipper as well. Brad Haddin also praised him.

“We have seen a bit of that in the IPL, that the captaincy doesn’t affect his batting, which is a really good sign. Captaincy, he’s going to grow into it. He made some tactical moves that were good, others where he was a little bit behind the game, but there’s a lot of life in this Indian cricket team. He didn’t take a backward step either. He stuck up for his players. You see in that Test match, when he got after Crawley when he was late to come out, and he pointed his finger, but he was very pointed in some of his responses in pressers after the game,” Brad Haddin concluded.