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IND vs ENG 5th Test: India skipper Shubman Gill made a hilarious comment during the series opener of the ongoing Test series at Headingley- ‘Ek taraf Mohammed, ek taraf Krishna, dono tabahi’ (There’s Mohammed on one end, and Krishna at the other, both are destroying England) and this comment now makes more sense post the second day of the fifth Test match. Since the visitors are once again without their star pacer Bumrah in the playing XI, the worn-out Mohammed Siraj and out-of-form Prasidh Krishna rose when the team needed them the most.

Siraj registered figures of 86/4 after bowling in 16.2 overs, whereas Prasidh took asd many wickets and conceded 62 runs after bowling in 16 overs and helped the team skittle the hosts out for 2467 runs.

Both the pacers created a new world record in the ongoing series as they together took more than half of the 15 wickets of the day. This is the highest till now and also surpassed the tally of taking 14 wickets on Day 4 of the third Test match at Lord's. Akash Deep (one wicket), Gus Atkinson (four wickets, three in the previous Indian innings), and Josh Tongue (two wickets, one in each innings) also made significant contributions to this record.

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How Prasidh, Siraj scripted the crucial comeback

Siraj and Prasidh's brilliant bowling performances helped the visitors make the hosts go from 92/0 at one point; it looked as if they might take a huge lead. But the tide of the match turned when the Indian pacers pushed their limits post-lunch.

“As a team, we knew what happened before lunch, and the three fast bowlers, I think we got together in a small corner and decided, what’s happened has happened. And all of us know what we need to be doing and we just said, every time we are on the field, at the mark, we trust each other enough, go speak to each other, tell them if you’re not on the right track, and just make sure you’re bowling the right lines and take it from there," Prasidh told reporters during the post-match press conference.

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“I think they are playing a lot of shots and as a bowling unit, it’s very hard for us to keep bowling the same areas, knowing they’re going to do all kinds of things and try to score runs. But that’s the challenge in itself. If you can still come there and know what your lengths and lines are and keep bowling the same good balls again and again, I think it’s a matter of time. And that’s the challenge, to be able to bowl the good lengths despite the aggressive intent of the batsman," he concluded.

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