Left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh shared some valuable insights about Team India’s training session before the five high-stakes Tests in England, slated to begin at Headingley on June 20. Arshdeep has been added to India’s Test squad ahead of Harshit Rana and Mohammed Shami for India’s first series of the new World Test Championship cycle.

“There was a lot of competitiveness with the batters. We enjoyed it. As bowlers, we had to grind and make proper plans to get the batter out. Sai, who has joined the team for the first time, looked compact. The skipper looked in good touch. I will try the banter keeps on going, and I dismiss them a lot of times,” Arshdeep Singh said in a video posted by the BCCI.

For him, the motive was to bring the body back to rhythm as per the demands of the Test format after an elongated patch in white-ball cricket as well.

“The main motive was to bring the body to rhythm. To get a feel of how the red ball was coming out of the hand, because a lot of players were playing white-ball cricket for a long time. As we go ahead, the intensity will increase, and we will try to make it hard for batters to face the ball,” he added.

“Whenever I pick up the ball, I feel I am the best. But when a player like Jasprit Bumrah plays in an attack, there is no room for comparison. The main focus is improving each other’s skill set and helping the team,” Arshdeep Singh concluded.

India’s Test squad for the England series:

Shubman Gill (c), Rishabh Pant (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav.