Credit: BCCI
Indian pacer Prasidh Krishna delivered a splendid performance against England in the first innings of the hosts's batting at The Oval in London in the fifth Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, and the figures of 4/62 in 16 overs stood out to be noticed in a different light, his best in the format. Ever since England's scorecard read just three wickets lost with a team tally going northward of 150, in pursuit of India's first innings total of 224 runs, it did seem on an occasion or two that the visiting side were perhaps out of the game.
In taking the bull by its horns and actually turning it around in order to give his team a fighting - if not an outside chance in the ongoing Test match, India's Prasidh Krishna has held onto an end with the red-ball alongside Mohammed Siraj at the other end. Krishna, tall and dandy and fighting fit, found a way to help India to make a comeback in the contest after they didn't seem in any control at one stage. He bowled brilliantly, stuck to his middle and off line and at times, around the off stump and claimed four vital wickets, to play a key role in bundling out England for 247 runs.
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This game is far from over. It is very much alive and still developing and if it has come to thrive for India, then it is largely due to the courageous bowling display of Prasidh Krishna, who bowled a valiant spell for no fewer than 16 overs. In so doing, he claimed the big key wickets of Zak Crawley, England's stoic and in-form right handed opening bat and along with that, the big wicket of Jamie Smith, who has made more runs this series than even their usual Test captain, Ben Stokes (who, gladly from an Indian point of view is not in this game).
But just when England's lower order would have wanted to stay put after losing out on Smith, an accomplished batter, Prasidh Krishna wasted no time whatsoever in wiping out - well almost - the entire lower order by quickly removing Gus Atkinson and Jamie Overton. He would, in so doing, give the rising English speedsters a taste of their own medicine.
