Ashish Nehra passes his game knowledge to us: Prasidh Krishna praises GT coach

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Gujarat Titans pacer Prasidh Krishna heaped praise on his side's head coach Ashish Nehra, highlighting how the former India pacer helps his side's bowling attack by passing on his own game knowledge to them.

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00:00It definitely helps when our team is picking wickets in the power play, coming on to the

00:04bowl the 6th over or after power play, it definitely helps when you see the scoreboard

00:07and there are two down or three down.

00:09So that is helping me do my job better.

00:11Do you think Siraj is in good rhythm now?

00:17I think he's coming off a good, good practice session.

00:19We've had great sessions together.

00:21The work that he's put in from January or February that he's been working on, everything

00:26is going well.

00:28He's releasing the ball well, he's feeling confident and yeah, things are going well

00:32for now.

00:33In the second match, you had the bowling unit perform well together.

00:34Though Rashid is not in the wickets today, he can play the right way.

00:35Sir, in the bowling unit, how fast can you get to the wickets?

00:46Yeah, definitely I think if you look at the wins that we've had, it came with a lot of

00:50understanding of what the wicket is behaving like and adjusting our game plans accordingly.

00:56So if as a bowling unit, we are able to do that consistently, it is really helpful going

01:00forward in the tournament.

01:01How was the pitch?

01:04Well, the pitch was slightly slow when we got on to bowl.

01:08It was not really coming off the fuller lengths.

01:11When Abhishek got out as well, that didn't really get on to the bat.

01:14So looking at that, it became very clear that we had to bowl straighter lines and we were

01:18able to do that pretty well.

01:19Before you said in the last few years, we have seen you take a predominant role in the

01:26move-on.

01:27You are a night watch and you are coming in pretty normal in the teams.

01:28How did you fit in and what were the discussions ahead of the season?

01:36Yeah, the discussions were pretty simple.

01:38We have the bowling unit where any of us can bowl at any stage of the game.

01:42And given the skill levels all of us have, we should be able to do all the roles pretty

01:46well.

01:47And having bowled a lot of outside powerplay bowling in 50-year cricket, it just makes

01:51it that much more the clarity that I have coming on.

01:55I know what has to be done and we have put in the work as a team.

01:59We know exactly what plans we come in with and that's really helping us.

02:02Your slow ones seem to be coming very easily off the hand.

02:07What will you do to come in at the end of the match?

02:11Yeah, it's really important to hit the lengths right, whatever you are bowling, even if the

02:15slower ones are deceiving the batsmen, it is important that I hit my lengths right.

02:19And now that I am hitting my lengths right, I think the slower ball is as much effective.

02:22First off, is there any update on Jaleb Phelps?

02:28Nothing sir.

02:29It's too early for now.

02:30He's just been icing.

02:31We don't really know what it is like.

02:32In the pre-match response, you were told that Akshish Nara played a big role in Siddharth's

02:33form.

02:34How has it been working with Akshish for you and the whole bowling unit?

02:44One thing is for sure.

02:46He's played a lot of cricket at the highest level for a very long time.

02:48He even made a comeback at the last few years of his career and that's got to be a lot of

02:53learning for him.

02:54And all that he's doing is passing on that knowledge that he has about the game, being

02:58able to adapt to situations, going into games with a lot of clarity and definitely when

03:03you have somebody that's done it multiple times, it is a lot more easier even when you

03:07go to him with any of our questions.

03:10So that is helping all of us.

03:12What do you think are the weaknesses in the batting unit that on paper is very strong?

03:23Well, it's more than you looking at the opponents, we are a team that really looks at what we

03:29can do the best and on a wicket like this, no matter who the batsman is or who we are

03:33playing, we set our game plans right and if we can follow it, I think that does the work.

03:40Was Washington promoted today?

03:45Was it a plan or was it a decision?

03:49Everybody is played in different positions when we play practice games and everything

03:53and Washy is somebody that can do the job at all places.

03:56Like I said, we have a team where luckily we have the people that have the skill levels

04:00to bat at any number, bowl at any stage of the game and that worked well for us.

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