Within the absence of Kagiso Rabada, Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill entrusted his main wicket-taker Prasidh Krishna to maneuver as much as open the bowling alongside Mohammed Siraj within the IPL 2025 Eliminator match in opposition to Mumbai Indians. The transfer backfired closely as Prasidh’s pure back-of-a-length deliveries fed into the strengths of MI’s veteran opening duo of Rohit Sharma and Jonny Bairstow.
Save for Siraj’s opening over that conceded solely six runs, the MI openers racked up greater than 10 runs in each over of the Powerplay, with Prasidh’s second over costing 26 runs. Taking part in his first sport of the season after being roped in as a short lived substitute signing by Mumbai, Bairstow unravelled the tall GT pacer’s quick lengths with three sixes anf two fours within the over as MI waltzed to 79 for no loss within the Powerplay.
Former Australia all-rounder Tom Moody referred to as out the tactical blunder from GT skipper Gill as he determined to push a pure middle-overs bowler, Prasidh, to function with the brand new ball.
“Opening the bowling with Prasidh Krishna was a tactical error. He has spent a majority of the season as an affect bowler within the center section of the sport. There’s solely been two events when he has bowled two (overs) within the powerplay in the entire season. He’s been only with that arduous lengths within the center section the place he’s acquired the safety on the market sq. of the wicket,” Moody mentioned in an ESPNcricinfo interplay.
Regardless of dismissing Rohit on 81 in his death-overs spell, Krishna was GT’s costliest bowler (2/53) as Mumbai registered the highest-ever IPL complete on the Mullanpur Stadium.
“To show him to 2 gamers like Rohit Sharma and Jonny Bairstow, who love that again of the size line, they’ll get again and pivot and pull the ball comfortably, it’s proper of their wheelhouse… [They could have tried] left-arm spin early on. With Washington Sundar coming in, it could have made a whole lot of sense and would have been one thing they [MI openers] probably wouldn’t have been anticipating.”
The Karnataka pacer, nevertheless, topped the Purple Cap charts with 25 wickets in 15 video games this season.