2nd ODI: Prasidh Krishna answers Team India call

Versatile pacer shows why he should be in India's scheme of thingsHow life turns around in a span of six months! On September 26 last year, Prasidh Krishna's 19th over for Kolkata Knight Riders had been carted around for 27 runs by Ravindra Jadeja as the southpaw allrounder engineered a Houdini act for Chennai Super Kings at the Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

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Rohit Sharma era as ODI captain started with a series win, as India took a 2-0 lead in the three-match series against the West Indies. It was India's 11th consecutive bilateral ODI series win against the visitors.

The tall Karnataka pacer was crestfallen as he felt responsible for his side losing a game that they had bossed till then. He barely featured in the tournament after that. But it is no secret that people in the Indian set up rate him. Former bowling coach Bharat Arun, ex-skipper Virat Kohli, former coach Ravi Shastri and current white-ball skipper Rohit Sharma all have only good things to say about him. To get the ball to bounce and seam from a length while bowling at over 140 clicks is a gift that few possess, and if you have a high-arm rhythmic action like Krishna, and are also tall like the soon-to-be 26 pacer (his birthday is on February 19), you can do what he did on Wednesday at the Narendra Modi Stadium in the second ODI in Ahmedabad: rock the top order and help India achieve what they very rarely do. Defend a score of less than 240 in an ODI. The last time it happened before Wednesday was in the World Cup in Southampton against Afghanistan, where a Mohammed Shami hat-trick helped India to a 11-run win while defending 224. Krishna had bowled well in the