IPL 2025 | Prasidh Krishna: ‘Loved Tilak Varma wicket the most; Sai Kishore staredown with Hardik was fun to watch’

Economical bowling with 4.50 runs per over after coming on rather late wasn’t the only thing that made Prasidh Krishna happy about his match turning bowling in the win against Mumbai Indians. The Gujarat Titans Speedster anointed ‘Skiddy’ was happy he had claimed the dangerous Tilak Verma’s wicket just when MI chase was getting back into the groove.
“Well, I really loved getting the first wicket,” he told GT social media after the 2/18 figures. “For GT, that was great as well. I thought it was going overhead but (Rahul) Tewatia really took a good catch. And of course Surya’s was a very important wicket at that point of time,” he added.
Ashish Nehra, GT coach has put together an impressive all-India Three Towers bowling attack comprising Md Siraj (2/34, and 1.78 metres tall), Prasidh (1.88 m) and Sai Kishore (1.96 m) with an average of 187 centimetres. However, it was the two pacers – ‘Miyan’ and ‘Skiddy’, who polished off the dangerous MI top order, after Siraj (2/34) sent back Rohit Sharma.
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It was the longest Skiddy had been made to wait to bowl on the black soil wicket.  “I was itching to bowl actually,” Prasidh said at the post-match presentation. “It was the tenth over. I was just thinking I haven’t really waited so long in a game, in a T20 game, before bowling but everything paid off.”
“When I got the ball in my hand, the first couple of them were not really good but then when I got to know what the pitch was like … And I think the message was clear from the team to back yourself and to go out there and execute and I’m happy as I have been doing it,” he added later to GT SM.
Skiddy said the GT bowlers had watched MI pacers bowl and realised anything into the pitch was coming off slow. “Anything into the pitch was harder to hit and I was also bowling to the longer end so I think that helped me bowl those that got the wickets,” he said adding the lack of dew helped them get on with their plans. “It was an excellent score we put on because the wicket being what it was …when you hit the ball onto the wicket it was coming off slow. There was not much dew really and we really expected some dew and considering dew, we were beyond par score. And then the dew didn’t come in and we were able to do whatever we did at the stadium.”
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“I just figured [slower balls] were working well. I didn’t really want to test the speed gun or try and do anything different. I just wanted to keep things simple. Knowing what the scoreboard was, I knew every single over, every single ball was really important. Just tried to keep things simple,” he said in post match presentation.
Skiddy later told Sai Kishore that he had been rusty in the first game but worked on his bowling. “When I looked last game I was a metre or two short, slightly wider. Worked on basics . Was playing T20 after a long time so took time to get going.” He added the team had enjoyed Sai Kishore holding his own when Hardik Pandya walked down the pitch to him. “We enjoyed your Staredown with Hardik knowing they are good friends,” he said, adding GT fellow bowlers Share a good bond. “Kind of players ….bowlers…we learn from each other. Our quality of bowlers is superb, almost all international or thereabouts.”
Captain Shubman Gill too praised Skiddy in the press conference. “I think he did more than pretty well. He did a pretty amazing job for us to be able to come in like that in a pressure situation and I think he changed the game for us in the way he bowled. I think he gave around 14 runs (18 actually) out of which I think a couple of boundaries that he got hit for came in the last over. In the first three overs he gave around six or seven runs. In a T20 game, when the opposition is chasing 200 (197 to win), you know the match is almost done,” Gill gushed.