Prasidh: 'My control over lengths has been good'

With 19 wickets, Prasidh Krishna has already matched his best tally in an IPL season. This year, it's taken him just ten matches to match his entire haul for 2022. No surprise that the Gujarat Titans (GT) fast bowler feels this is his best IPL campaign yet.

"I think my control over the length has been good and all the work that we've been putting in as a team and everybody around has been supportive enough for me to get to where I am now. And yeah, I'm enjoying the way the ball is coming out of the hand," Prasidh said on the broadcast after GT beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Friday to get to No. 2 on the IPL 2025 points table.

Against SRH, Prasidh returned 2 for 19 from his four overs, while the best economy rate among other bowlers, who bowled two overs or more, was 8.25 [Mohammed Siraj]. He has, in fact, been economical all along, going at 7.48 so far, his best in a season.

"My preparation would start firstly by getting control over what I want to do, get back into the practice, get back in the nets, do exactly what I would do against somebody that I'd be facing in a particular game and then from there, get on game day, look at what the pitch is like," Prasidh said. "If you're bowling second, make sure you watch every single ball of the 20 overs somebody else bowls, take all that you can from them.

"And I have a lot of people around me that have played a tremendous amount of cricket. So just have a chat with them, try and make sure you hit the right areas and take it from there."

GT captain Shubman Gill said it was good to be spoilt for choice when it came to their bowling attack. They used seven bowlers on Friday, although R Sai Kishore only bowled because Ishant Sharma went off the field injured while bowling the 20th over, as GT registered a 38-run win.

The match also saw Gerald Coetzee debut for the team after recovering from an injury, and he returned 1 for 36.

"Everyone is chipping in be it Sai, Prasidh, Rashid bhai [Khan], Siraj, Ishi bhai [Ishant], even Coetzee in this game," Gill said. "It's always nice to have many options when you are bowling especially when you're defending on these type of grounds."