Prasidh Krishna hopes to improve after 1st Test let-down: My responsibility to get better

Prasidh Krishna's economy in the first Test against England at Headingley was a big talking point in the poorly performing Indian bowling attack. But the pacer has come out and admitted that while it may not have been his best performance, he remains committed to the cause and aims to do better in the rest of the series.

In the 35 overs bowled in the first Test, Prasidh finished with an economy rate of 6.2, which gave England momentum on a decent pitch to bat on. With the pressure of workload management of premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah, it is now on the other bowlers to step up their game and ensure that it is not a one-man show, as is the case with every high-performing bowling unit across generations.

Prasidh was fairly criticised for not ensuring that he bowled at a slightly fuller length to take advantage of whatever the pitch provided. As a result, batters ended up going after him, resulting in 220 runs across both innings.

"Every time I come into bowl, I'm definitely looking to bowl a maiden, and I'm not really trying to give away boundaries or anything. The outfield [at Headingley] was fast, the lengths, lines that I bowled were not perfect to be honest, most times, and they took me on. Some of them were edges, some of them I tried bowling bouncers, and I ended up giving runs," Prasidh admitted in an interaction with the reporters.

He talked about how he wanted to do something different against the England batters who were going at a fairly aggressive rate and providing an element of unpredictability, but he did clarify that going for runs is not a part of his plans by any means.

"So I think somebody in the team had to do it, and if I sit back and say, 'I want to look at my numbers, what my economy is,' and not look at the wickets, it cost me a 4 and a 6, and then Jamie Smith got out, so if it means that I do that and get a wicket, I'm happy to do it, but every time I come on to the bowl, I am looking to keep the economy down and build the pressure up," he mentioned.

"I had a few conversations with a few of them about this game. I definitely would want to bring that [economy] down to whatever best I can do, and yeah, I think I'm learning as well, I can't say anything, it's up to me, it's my responsibility to get better, and that's what I'm trying, that's what I'm working on, and I just want to make sure I put in the right kind of work and come back here and put up better numbers," he added.

Now the onus will be on the 29-year-old to get better in the second Test at Edgbaston in Birmingham. The Indian team is already on the backfoot, having lost the opening Test and would need to get the win to ensure they don't fall even further behind.