GT's Ishant Sharma Reveals How Ashish Nehra Made Pacers Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna More Effective

Making Mohammed Siraj trust his outswinger a little more while getting Prasidh Krishna to bring his length a little ahead are the changes which Gujarat Titans' head coach Ashish Nehra has brought about in the two pacers, which in turn has made them more effective bowlers, revealed veteran pacer Ishant Sharma. "Ashish bhai didn't change much in his bowling. The only change he made was that sometimes, Siraj didn't feel very confident in his outswing. But this is the only difference in a good coach, especially if that coach has bowled in international cricket."

"So he has that experience, and he always said to him, 'Trust your outswinger. That is your stock ball'. He used to bowl with a wobble-seam - it would come in after the ball hit the seam. So he used to bowl it a lot earlier, and he stopped bowling his outswinger."

"So, Ashish bhai said, 'No, your first ball will be an outswing. When this ball stops swinging, you will go for that ball (wobble-seam ball). So he just kept it very simple - 'that this is your ball, you have to bowl it'," said Ishant to IANS during a Star Sports Press Room episode around the race to play-offs on Saturday.

He further explained the change in lengths, which has made Prasidh more lethal with his hit-the-deck bowling style in the middle overs. "With regards to Prasidh, the major change which Ashu bhai has done with him is that, with him being tall, his natural length used to be six metres, and because of that, he gets bounce. So he told him that you have to take your length a little ahead."

"If you understand in metres, there are two different soils we play on - black and red. So on red soil, you have to bowl four and a half metres. With the same kind of intent, you bowl back of the length, you