His skipper Rohit Sharma’s high praise was “very flattering”, pacer Prasidh Krishna said after emerging as the star player with his excellent bowling in India’s 44-run win over the West Indies in the second ODI in Ahmedabad. The lanky Karnataka man secured India’s three-game rubber series victory, which left his captain impressed.
“That was something very flattering to me because he (Rohit) has been playing cricket for a long time. I’m very happy from him,” Prasidh said at the post-match press conference on Wednesday.
Rohit was impressed by the sensational spell of Prasidh, who was named Player of the Match for his four wickets for just 12 runs in nine overs, including three maids.
“I’ve never seen a spell like this in India in a long time. Bowled with a lot of pace and persevered,” Rohit had said at the award ceremony.
The bowler said he has strived to be consistent and was pleased that his efforts paid off.
“Personally, like I said, I’ve been setting up the yards for quite some time now and I’m trying to do this, so I’m glad it happened.
“It’s been almost a year since I made my debut for India. Since then I’ve been striving to become more consistent,” Prasidh said at the post-match press conference.
“I remember when I started out I got excited and had too many emotions.
“But over time we’ve been together, we’ve practiced together as a team. We’ve had our plans and we’ve been very clear about what we wanted to work on.” India scored 237 for nine then returned to sack West Indies for 193 in 46 overs to take a comfortable win.
“Like I said, we’ve been working on consistency as a bowling unit. We all know we have a good set of bowlers on our team and we help and learn from each other, so that’s about it, there’s nothing special,” kept he full.
It is the eleventh time in the last 17 games that the West Indies have failed to beat their full quota of 50 overs.
Prasidh said his goal was to hit good lines and lengths.
“It was pretty easy, hitting good lengths, good lines and bowling in the area where it was (necessary) for batsmen to push out for runs or block it, so I tried to do my best,” said the 25-year-old. year old Bengaluru born player.
Suryakumar Yadav also played a pivotal role in India’s win, with his 64-run knockout after the hosts faltered at 43 for three following a top-order collapse.
Prasidh said the Motera circuit was beneficial for bowlers.
“It was more beneficial to the bowlers. So I think the lengths I got in the last game in the middle-overs were very similar and because there were more buys in the wicket today (Wednesday) it behaved differently and helped mine too,” he explained.
‘We have done quite well as a bowling unit’
Prasidh was effusive in his praise of his bowling colleagues, saying that the hosts have done a good job as a unit.
“The original plan was to keep it tight, put pressure on the batsmen and eventually that would give us few wickets and then it reacted to the situation.
“I mean, they had a pretty good start, and then we talked, we kept it tight, credit goes to everyone, it wasn’t easy for the spinners to bowl with the ball hitting the bat well, so we did it pretty good as a bowling unit,” he said.
‘Pauses don’t disturb the rhythm’
According to Prasidh, breaks for bowlers do not disrupt their rhythm.
“Break that disrupts the rhythm I see no such thing because as a bowler, as a cricketer, you would play if and when you get the chance and if you don’t play you might as well go back to the drawing board, get well and come back to play whenever you get the chance,” he said.
‘Surya’s turns are very important to us’
Prasidh said Suryakumar’s innings were very important to the team in the overall context of the game.
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“The timing of it was very important because we had lost early wickets such as quick wickets and also credit to West Indian bowlers, they were bowling good lines and lengths and something was happening all over the wicket.
“So yes, Surya’s inning was very important to us,” he concluded.
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