The rising sensation in India’s tempo battery, Prasidh Krishna, has made a strong case for himself to earn a potential Test debut after selecting up a fifer within the drawn four-day sport between South Africa A and India A in Potchefstroom.
As per a PTI report, India’s veteran pacer Mohammed Shami is batting an ankle situation. Hence, there are probabilities that he would possibly miss the Boxing Day Test against South Africa in Centurion beginning December 26.
If Shami misses the sport then that may routinely open the doorways for Prasidh, who’s contemporary out of an impressive spell (together with a hat-trick) against South Africa’s A squad.
Prasidh, 27, bowled 18.1 overs and completed with figures of 5/43, together with six maiden overs. He was capable of take the ball away from the right-handed South African batters at tempo and was continually respiration down their neck.
The Karnataka pacer has an impressive first-class file and that provides to the explanation why the present choice committee and the members of the workforce administration have a lot confidence in him.
Wickets in South Africa are historically recognized to help seamers and supply sufficient lateral motion to maintain them all through the course of the sport. Hence, a bowler like Prasidh can utilise the circumstances to his benefit and is usually a nice asset within the marquee collection.
Notably, India are but to win a Test collection on South African soil. The Indian workforce has been on eight Test excursions of South Africa and has misplaced seven of these collection. The 2010-11 tour produced a historic end result for India after they managed to attract a two-match Test collection – their first-ever drawn collection within the longest format of the sport within the Rainbow Nation.
India’s Test squad for the South Africa tour:
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami*, Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Prasidh Krishna
