Chennai, June 20 -- Following his match-winning five-wicket haul for India, pacer Prasidh Krishna admitted that having a bunch of great bowlers in the Gujarat Titans (GT) and India set-up in the Indian Premier League (IPL), learning and competing with them paid off for him.

Krishna registered a career-best figure of 5/23 and secured his first ODI five-wicket haul, reducing Afghanistan to 37/4 in the powerplay before Azmatullah Omarzai and Hashmatullah Omarzai put on a century stand, which ultimately took Afghanistan to 218 runs, which was never going to be enough against a power-packed Indian batting line-up, as Rohit Sharma and centurion Yashasvi Jaiswal put on 170 runs for the opening wicket.

Speaking after the match, Prasidh said, "H...