Familiar with conditions at Chinnaswamy, will need to execute well: GT's Krishna

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Gujarat Titans (GT) bowler Prasidh Krishna said that he and Mohammed Siraj are well aware of the conditions at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru ahead of their Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

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00:00Well, it's great to come back home and play in the stadium that you've grown up playing.

00:04It is exciting.

00:05First game in Bangalore as well.

00:06So we're looking forward to how it's going to act.

00:09And yes, the team is excited about how the tournament has started.

00:12We've done quite a few things well, we are trying to get better at a few things.

00:16So yeah, it is going to be exciting.

00:18Prasad, obviously, you're playing in the IPL now after a considerable break because of

00:23injuries.

00:25Coming back in, physically, you feel you're at the optimum best.

00:29Just take us through how you felt and how you've gone so far in the couple of games.

00:34Yes, as much as I try to tell myself that it's just another tournament, just another

00:38game, I did feel that I'm coming in after a few years and especially coming in not having

00:44played a lot of T20s in the last two years.

00:45The pace of the game has changed 2022 to 2025.

00:48So it did take some time, but then that's the game.

00:52I think it keeps moving forward and you have to keep up with the game and not much has

00:59changed for me physically.

01:00I have thankfully been playing some cricket now and the body is letting me do what I want

01:03to do.

01:08Prasad, you and Mohamed Siraj are pretty familiar to the Chinnaswamy picture.

01:19How do you think that will play an advantage playing against RCB in tomorrow's match?

01:25Yes, having played a lot of cricket here, you have an idea about what the pitch is going

01:29to be like.

01:30But no matter how well you know, I think it comes down to execution that day.

01:34It comes down to how the game momentum goes and if you're able to execute your plans well,

01:39I think you'll be more or less doing well in most kind of pitches that you play on.

01:49Prasad, obviously, tell us about working with someone like Ashish Nehra, who reinvented

01:54himself as a death bowler in the second part of his international career.

01:59You're somebody who has height and you hit the deck hard.

02:01Tell us a little bit about working on the other aspects of fast bowling and how you've

02:05gone about it.

02:06Yes, I think that's what I'm trying to get from him about what he thought about the game.

02:11Having played for so long and been so successful, I think it's really important for me to pick

02:15his brain.

02:16The conversations have been on similar lines about the decisions that you make as a bowler,

02:21the preparation that you would go into games with.

02:25Handling the situation, handling pressure, what would you do when you're coming up against

02:29a challenge.

02:30Those are the kind of things that he's been talking to me about and it is great.

02:33You learn different things from different people and this is what I get to learn from

02:36Ashish Nehra.

02:37Prasad, in Gujarat, you're a part of a very experienced bowling lineup.

02:42You have got Rabada, Rashid Khan and all.

02:44Sorry, sir, can you repeat?

02:45In the Gujarat team, you're a part of a very experienced bowling lineup.

02:49You have got Rabada, Rashid Khan, Isham Sharma.

02:53So, and you bowl along with them at the nets and in the match.

02:57So what do you learn from those experiences?

02:58What is the learning you're taking from them?

03:01Yes, that's one lovely thing about the IPL.

03:04We have a lot of great bowlers in the team.

03:05We have a lot of youngsters that have a lot of potential.

03:09So every time we get into the net session, there's so much for us to watch and learn

03:12from each other.

03:14And when you are together, you build a relationship where you go in, speak to people, find out

03:18how they approach the game, what are they thinking, what differently do they do compared

03:22to everybody that we play along with.

03:24So it is great to be rubbing shoulders with such experienced guys and also the new guys

03:30that are coming on.

03:33Prasit, can you talk a little bit about Shubman Gill as a captain?

03:38You know, when you go out onto the field, how much is he involved with the bowler in

03:44terms of field settings, what tactics to go with, and how much of it is planned beforehand

03:49and how much does he adapt on the field?

03:52Yes, there is a lot of planning that goes in before we get out on the pitch.

03:56But then the advantage of having somebody like Gill right there is that you can go up

04:01to him and ask him, what do you think is a better length to be bowling on this pitch?

04:07What would you do?

04:08So it's nice to have Gill and every other experienced player around.

04:12There's Joss that's keeping, there's Siraj, there's KG, there's this.

04:15Everybody has played a lot of cricket, thankfully.

04:17Shan Sharma also came in last game and helped.

04:19And as a team, if you can discuss, have the communication going, it really helps.

04:24And Shubman is a guy that I've known for quite some time now.

04:27And it's really easy for any of us to go approach him and get anything from his mind.

04:35Prasit, when you come on to bowl as late as you did, let's say, in the last game,

04:40how do you manage your mental energy until that point?

04:44Well, honestly, it was the first time for me as well last time.

04:47So I just tried to keep myself in the game, just be prepared every single over,

04:52because T20 is such a game that you're not sure about when you're bowling beforehand.

04:55It can just happen in the moment of the game.

04:58And then the only thing that I could control is making sure that I'm up and running

05:02and know the pace of the game so that when I come in,

05:05I don't really take that one extra ball to get into the pace of the game.

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