Imagine waiting months for your India comeback.
The call finally comes.
You land in Belfast. New ball. Big stage.
And then… the nightmare begins.
That was Prasidh Krishna's Friday in Ireland.
Two unwanted records. One forgettable evening.
India won the toss. Chose to bowl.
Harshit Rana and Arshdeep Singh tore through Ireland's top order.
📉 32/3 inside the Powerplay.
Game, almost, over.
Then Prasidh ran in.
Lorcan Tucker had already steadied things with a calm 50.
But the real damage came at the death.
George Dockrell joined Gareth Delany.
Prasidh got the ball.
What followed was carnage:
6️⃣ Six
6️⃣ Six
4️⃣ Four
6️⃣ Six
4️⃣ Four
27 runs in a single over.
The most expensive over ever bowled by an Indian against Ireland in T20Is.
He finished with 0/57 in 4 overs.
This wasn't a one-off bad day.
Rewind to his last T20I — November 2023, vs Australia.
He leaked 68 runs in 4 overs that night. An Indian record at the time.
Add today's 57.
💸 125 runs across two consecutive T20Is.
The most by any bowler in successive T20I innings.
Not just any Indian.
Any bowler. In the history of the format.
India bowled brilliantly around him.
🔥 Harshit Rana: 3/24
🎯 Arshdeep Singh: 2/28
🌀 Axar Patel: 2/33
Three bowlers did their job. One over flipped the match.
Ireland finished on 182/9 — a total that had no business existing after that Powerplay collapse.
Prasidh is genuinely one of India's most exciting Test and ODI pacers.
High-arm action. Steep bounce. Wicket-taking strike rate in ODIs that most bowlers would kill for.
But T20 is a different sport.
Length is everything.
A fraction short, and the ball disappears.
And right now, that fraction is haunting him.
Ashes of an evening like this stick.
But so do comebacks.
The ball will be in his hand again.
The stage will reset.
And cricket, brutal as it is, always offers a second over.
Prasidh just needs one good one to start rewriting the story.
That's all for now!
