'Not often you see Root lose his temper' - tensions begin to simmer on day two
India fast bowler Prasidh Krishna says it was a deliberate tactic to try and disrupt Joe Root when the pair were involved in a heated exchange on the second day of the fifth Test at The Oval.
The exact words, which came when Root was yet to get off the mark and played and missed at Krishna, were not picked up by the stump microphones but the England batter was unusually animated in his response.
Krishna, who took 4-62 as England were bowled out for 247 in their first innings, added that he was also taken by surprise by how it unfolded.
"It was the plan [to disrupt him], but I didn't expect the couple of words that I said to get such a big reaction from him," he said.
