2nd Test: Akash stars as India breach fortress Edgbaston with 336-run win over England; level series 1-1

Birmingham: Pacer Akash Deep picked a superb 6-99 to complete a ten-wicket match haul as India beat England by 336 runs to get their first-ever Test match win at Edgbaston on Sunday. The statement victory has also meant that India have levelled the five-match Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series at 1-1.

India came into this game without Jasprit Bumrah, not including Kuldeep Yadav and being 0-1 down after losing the unloseable Test at Leeds. Akash, who came in as Bumrah’s replacement for this game, stepped in to produce a fast bowling performance for ages – troubling batters with the new ball on a flat pitch to bowl out England for 271 on the last day, with more than a session to spare.

Akash has also become just the second Indian bowler to take a ten-wicket haul in a Test in England after Chetan Sharma took 10-188, co-incidentally at Birmingham back in 1986. He was well supported by Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar taking a wicket each, with Shubman Gill, who hit 269 and 161, getting his first victory as India’s Test captain.

Despite rain delaying day five’s start by 100 minutes, India managed to pick the remaining seven wickets and successfully exorcise their ghosts of losing at Headingley from a sureshot winning position with a famous victory in Birmingham. IANS

Scoreboard  

India: 1st innings- 587; England: 1st innings - 407

India: 2nd innings- 427/6 dec.

England: 2nd innings-

Zak Crawley              c (sub) Sudharsan b Siraj         0               

Ben Duckett              b Deep                                         25             

Ollie Pope                                    b Deep                                         24             

Joe Root                    b Deep                                         6               

Harry Brook               lbw b Deep                                  23             

*Ben Stokes              lbw b Sundar                              33             

Jamie Smith              c Sundar b Deep                        88             

Chris Woakes           c Siraj b Krishna                        7               

Brydon Carse            c Gill b Deep                               38             

Josh Tongue             c Siraj b Jadeja                           2               

Shoaib Bashir           not out                                          12             

Extras: 13; Total:                                         271-10 (68.1)

FOW:Crawley (11-1, 1.4), Duckett (30-2, 4.3), Root (50-3, 10.2), Pope (80-4, 19.1), Brook (83-5, 21.3), Stokes (153-6, 40.3), Woakes (199-7, 52.1), Smith (226-8, 55.4), Tongue (246-9, 63.5), Carse (271-10, 68.1)

Bowling

Akash Deep              21.1          2                99              6               

Mohammed Siraj      12              3                57              1

Prasidh Krishna       14              2                39              1               

Ravindra Jadeja       15              4                40              1               

Washington Sundar 6                2                28              1

India’s biggest away wins:

1 336 runs vs England (Birmingham, 2025)

2. 318 runs vs West Indies (North Sound, 2019)

3. 295 runs vs Australia (Perth, 2024)

4. 279 runs vs England (Leeds, 1986)

5. 278 runs vs Sri Lanka (Colombo, 2015)

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