India pacer relishes three-wicket haul on flat Kotla deck after being named Impact Player of the Series by team
The Impact Player of the Series medal that Siraj received. Pic/BCCI; (right) Mohammed Siraj celebrates the wicket of WI’s Shai Hope in New Delhi on Monday. Pic/PTI
India pacer Mohammed Siraj has said that every wicket he took in the just-concluded second Test against the West Indies felt like a fifer on an unresponsive pitch. Siraj took three wickets in the game that India won by seven wickets to complete a 2-0 series domination over the Caribbean outfit here on Tuesday. In the opening Test in Ahmedabad, he picked up seven scalps.
Siraj was named the Impact Player of the Series in Team India’s dressing room honours. “To be honest, this series went very well. When we played in Ahmedabad, there was some help for the fast bowlers. In New Delhi, we had to bowl a lot of overs. Every wicket [that I took] felt like five wickets,” Siraj said in a video shared by the BCCI.
“As a fast bowler, when you get rewarded after putting in the effort, you gain a lot of confidence and you also feel happy after winning the Impact Player award in the dressing room,” he added.
Siraj, who has been the cynosure of the Indian fast bowling attack for a while now, said Test cricket is his favourite format and promised to keep delivering. I feel very proud as a person after any achievement. I will try to continue with such performances because Test cricket is my favourite format,” he said.
“There are so many challenges in it, you have to be on the field the whole day and you have to do it physically and mentally. It’s very different, but it also makes me feel proud and have fun,” he added. India wicketkeeper-batter N Jagadeesan, who announced the honour for Siraj in the change room, termed the fast bowler “impeccable” for his outstanding commitment. “There have been a lot of performances in this series, great performances, but now it’s just about one guy who has been impeccable throughout this series,” Jagadeesan said.
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