India, Aug. 26 -- India bowling coach Morne Morkel showered encomium on pacer Prasidh Krishna for ignoring "outside voices" to work hard on his game, developing into a "world-class bowler."

Prasidh took three wickets (3/47) in an intense 14-over spell across the day to lead India's bowling unit against Sri Lanka on the third day of the second Test here on Tuesday. "It (the spell) showed the character of Prasidh. He has the media on his back, the commentators on his back, to fight through that.and his bowling at the moment is very impressive," Morkel began the post-day press meet.

Morkel was delighted to see Prasidh operating calmly through a zillion distracting voices. "It's about quieting those voices and just playing cricket. As a tea...