A couple of days before the series opener, Ajinkya Rahane made his pick and selected the second pacer in the team. Mohammed Siraj will lead India’s pace attack. “One of the two pacers in the playing 11 is guaranteed to be Siraj. The second fast bowler should be Auqib Nabi if the conditions are pacer-friendly. If the wicket appears to be on the drier side, Prasidh Krishna, with his pace, can be more useful as the second pacer. Once the pitch flattens, he can be valuable to try the short ball theory or the around-the-wicket strategy,” Rahane said on his YouTube channel.
