India's star pacer Mohammed Siraj credited his five-wicket haul on a flat track to the team’s Strength and Conditioning coach Soham Desai and stated that he accepted the challenges presented to him.
Siraj has been playing Test cricket for just over two years. It is a credit to his development that India's team management chose him to lead a fairly inexperienced fast bowling squad on their maiden foreign assignment in the new World Test Championship cycle, while Shami and Jasprit Bumrah rested and rehabilitated back home.
On Sunday, Siraj demonstrated why team management gave him the responsibility and why he enjoys difficulties. On a surface with little for the seamers, the 29-year-old hit brilliantly and returned with his career-best figures of 5 for 60 on a calm track.
