IND vs SL: Indian bowlers, once again they stood up to the expectations in the second ODI vs Sri Lanka as they restricted the hosts at just 215. Mohammed Siraj was the pick of Indian bowlers with his figures of 3/30 while Kuldeep Yadav also got three wickets by giving away 50 runs in his 10-over quota. Umran Malik’s pace was yet again hard for the Sri Lanka batters to manage as the fast bowler scalped two wickets.
After the impeccable performance, Siraj revealed that he decided to bowl at the stumps as the swing stopped soon and balls coming out didn’t have much pace.
“Initially, the ball wasn’t coming out quick enough, and there wasn’t enough swing. So the plan was to bowl stump to stump to keep the pressure on the Sri Lankan team from one end, hoping to get wickets and help the other bowlers,” said Siraj in mid-innings chat with broadcasters.
KL Rahul’s advice worked for Siraj
Siraj added that he had to use his wobble seam deliveries more as wicketkeeper KL Rahul told that ball wasn’t having any swing.
“KL (Rahul) bhai told me it stopped swinging after first over, so I switched over to hard lengths. I have a wobble-seam delivery, so I will focus a lot on it as it got me wickets and success too. The plan was to hit that consistently.”
Siraj praised Kuldeep for spinning the web vs Sri Lanka
Siraj also praised Kuldeep Yadav for spinning the a web against Sri Lanka batters in the middle-overs.
“It is a good batting wicket, but Kuldeep bowled very well to cause a middle-order collapse. Then we bowled well in all departments, the fast bowlers as well as the spinners.”
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