In the current season of the Indian Premier League, Prasidh Krishna has been playing well. So far, he has taken 16 wickets in just eight innings. The lanky pacer is playing so well that it’s very likely he’ll become this season’s leading wicket-taker.
Throughout the 2025 IPL, Prasidh has been the Gujarat Titans’ preferred bowler. The 2022 edition champions paid INR 9.5 crore at the super auction to obtain his services before the current season began. This comes after a quad ailment and a lumbar stress fracture, respectively, kept the right-arm quick out of the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
First and foremost, Prasidh Krishna ability to consistently clock northwards at 140 kph makes him a vital weapon.
Inherently, the 6’2″ bowler can produce more bounce off the wicket than the majority of Indian pacers. For bowlers in the present age, pace and bounce, however, don’t really matter.
In order to alter their lengths, bowlers typically alter the points at which they release the ball significantly. In order to deliver the ball from a lower position, pacers are typically encouraged to “bend their backs” when playing shorter lengths. The converse is true for fast bowlers who want to hit the ball at longer lengths.
One thing that has set Prasidh apart is his cunning deceit of showing that the height of release has barely changed. A thorough investigation by Wisden states that Prasidh’s release heights differ by about 7.6 cm. Choosing a batsman’s release height is challenging because there is a 4 cm discrepancy between balls that land on a reasonable length (6–8 m) and full tosses (0–2 m).
Instinct is thought to be much harder to criticise Prasidh at shorter periods. On average, the right-armer’s good length and short length deliveries have a 3.4 cm difference in release height. There is a significant disparity in height. Alzarri Joseph, Pat Cummins, Gerald Coetzee, and other bowlers who are about Prasidh’s height show a variation in release heights between short-length and good-length deliveries of 5-7 cm.
The key lesson here is that Prasidh has the singular ability to place the ball with a significantly lower degree of predictability anywhere from right above the stumps to about chest or neck-high. Prasidh’s action and subsequent actions support this as well. On the other hand, he bounces back almost immediately. Prasidh almost seems to be trying to intentionally smash the ball into the deck with this.
IPL 2025 has seen Prasidh bowl 58% of his overs during the middle phase (overs 7 to 16). So far, Prasidh has given excellent dividends for the Shubman Gill-led side. In a season where most bowlers have gone the distance, he has maintained a frugal economy rate of 7.29. It remains to be seen how well he fares for GT in the business end of the tournament.
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