The young Indian fast bowler, Prasidh Krishna impressed one and all with his pace and bounce in the first two ODIs of the three-match series against England. However, he also acknowledged that he needs to work hard on trying to be more economical with the new ball. In both ODIs, Prasidh managed to get wickets in his second spell with the semi-new ball (as two new balls are used) and got a bit of stick from England batsmen during his opening overs.
After the second ODI which India lost by six wickets, Prasidh Krishna said, “Personally, I would like to start better. I would like to improve on how I have been starting with the (new ball). Otherwise, all the runs that I gave away were scored off bad balls. So I would go back and work on those aspects.”
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While Indian bowlers had a poor day in office, Prasidh said that they couldn’t have done anything better to avoid the onslaught from Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes and the English batsmen need to be credited. With only four fielders outside the circle during the second Powerplay (between 11-40 overs), it is always difficult to stop the batsmen on a flat deck.
Prasidh explained, “That’s the game of white-ball cricket today. With four outside for the 11 to 40 overs, that’s bound to happen. It was a very good wicket to bat on, no doubt. The score says it all. We scored 330-plus and they chased it down in the 44th over. It says it all. It was a flat wicket, challenging wicket for bowlers where the margin of error was very, very less.”
However, one can’t debut that the Indian bowlers failed to execute their plans well and Prasidh seemed a trifle irritated with repeated references.
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The young fast bowler said, “Our executions could have been slightly better, personally for me. Other than that, it is a repetitive question, the third time I am being asked. Yes, we did make mistakes, we could have done better but they batted well too.”
