Akash Deep created history at Edgbaston
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Akash Deep set a massive world record at Edgbaston
- Akash took a 10-wicket haul in India's victory
- Akash took six wickets in the second innings
Akash Deep was the star of the show as the Indian cricket team created history at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground as the Shubman Gill-led Indian cricket team created history and won the second Test match of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy by a stunning margin of 336 runs, which is their biggest winning margin away from home as well as their first in Birmingham.
Akash was left out of the playing XI for the series opener at Leeds, which India lost by five wickets. Akash replaced star pacer Jasprit Bumrah in the playing XI and had big shoes to fill as the team's talisman missed out due to workload management with the team 1-0 down in the series.
Akash put up a performance that will go down in the history books as he took four wickets in the first innings while conceding just 88 runs. This included the big wickets of Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Harry Brook, and Chris Woakes. The 28-year-old went one better in the second innings with a six-wicket haul while conceding just 60 runs. He got the wickets of Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith, and Shoaib Bashir.
Akash Deep Sets World Record
Akash finished with figures of 10/187, which is the best a visiting pacer in history at Edgbaston. Akash is only the second non-English fast bowler to get a 10-wicket haul at the ground in history. The previous instance of the same happening was also by an Indian, when Chetan Sharma took a 10-wicket haul in 1986.
Visiting Pacers With Best Bowling Figures at Edgbaston
| Player |
Country |
Figures |
Year |
| Akash Deep |
India |
10/187 |
2025 |
| Chetan Sharma |
India |
10/188 |
1986 |
| Joel Garner |
West Indies |
9/108 |
1984 |
| Imran Khan |
Pakistan |
9/136 |
1982 |
| Asif Mahmood |
Pakistan |
9/160 |
1971 |
Apart from the quicks, legendary spinners Muttiah Muralitharan (2006) and Shane Warne (2005) are the only other bowlers from a visiting team to take a 10-wicket haul at the venue.
Chetan and Akash are also the only two Indian pacers to take a ten-wicket haul in a Test match on English soil in history at any ground. Jasprit Bumrah and Zaheer Khan have taken nine-wicket hauls previously at Trent Bridge in 2021 and 2007, respectively.
Akash's six-wicket haul is only the second instance of a visiting pacer taking a six-wicket haul at Edgbaston in the 21st century after Mohammed Siraj, who did that in the first innings of this match.
