India, July 2 -- Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar gave head coach Gautam Gambhir and skipper Shubman Gill a hard-hitting reality check about Mohammed Siraj's current red-ball form. The premier pacer has been put under the scanner after his recent underwhelming performance. He also failed to impress in the Leeds Test, claiming two wickets in the first innings while remaining wicketless in the second.

Meanwhile, in the second innings, he did put up some hard work in his first spell to trouble Zak Crawley with the balls nipping back in for the batter and later almost dismissed Ben Duckett on 97, but Yashasvi Jaiswal dropped his catch.

Manjrekar gave his take on who should be preferred to pair with Bumrah as the second-choice pacer, ...