Former India captain Kapil Dev, who led the nation to a famous Test series win on English shores in 1986, is all praise for pacer Akash Deep after Sunday’s victory in the second Test at Edgbaston. Akash Deep took a record match-haul of 10-187 as India beat England by 336 runs to level the five-match series 1-1 with three more games to go. &
09 July,2025 08:20 AM IST | Kolkata | Debasish DattaOnce upon a time, as most fairytales begin, it was said that no batter’s education was completed unless they played in England, with its myriad challenges. Crazily swinging balls. Wickedly seaming deliveries, propelled by grass-laden surfaces. Rain one day, blazing sun the next, sometimes both the same day.All that has changed in the last few
09 July,2025 07:52 AM IST | London | R KaushikFormer national chief selector and ex-wicketkeeper-batter Kiran More, who played an important role the last time an Indian team avoided defeat in a Test at Birmingham in 1986, reckons it’s a new beginning for Indian cricket after Shubman Gill & Co dominated England for five whole days to win the second Test by a record 336 runs at Edgbast
09 July,2025 07:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Subodh MayureFormer England pacer James Anderson feels that Jofra Archer will make his appearance in the playing XI for the third Test match against India. "You could keep trying to build his overs up and play him later in the series, but it could be too late by then. I think he will play. He played one game for Sussex; he was around the team at Edgbaston and
08 July,2025 02:47 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentTeam India veteran, Ajinkya Rahane, has heaped praise on skipper Shubman Gill for his stunning display with the willow in the second Test match against England in Birmingham. During the match, Gill registered the scores of 269 runs in the first and 161 runs in the second innings, helping the visitors emerge victorious against England by a margin o
08 July,2025 11:43 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentTwo flat tracks and two different winners. That, in a nutshell, is the story of the five-match Test series thus far. The team that grabbed all 20 wickets won the high-scoring games. It was England’s bowlers to the fore in Headingley, Leeds, while India’s pacers, particularly Akash Deep and Mohammed Siraj, did it at Edgbaston. India ski
08 July,2025 08:36 AM IST | Birmingham | Santosh SuriIndia's Edgbaston Test hero Akash Deep’s elder sister Jyoti Singh, who is battling cancer, is elated by her brother’s match-winning effort — a 10-wicket haul. Moments after the match, Akash Deep dedicated his performance — 10-187, the best figures by an Indian in England — to his sister. He went on to reveal her cancer
08 July,2025 08:32 AM IST | Mumbai | Bipin DaniEngland captain Ben Stokes conceded that India well and truly turned the tables on his team in every department of the game with pacer Akash Deep’s (4-88 & 6-99) “incredible” skill-set making the decisive difference in the second Test here. “I thought Akash exposed that crack last night [Saturday] and this morning
08 July,2025 08:09 AM IST | Birmingham | PTI336India’s victory margin at Edgbaston — their best ever in an away Test 3Shubman Gill became only the third India captain after Sunil Gavaskar and Virat Kohli to score centuries in both innings of a Test 430Gill’s total runs in the second Test — the highest by an Indian and the second-best overall in Tests, behind Graham
08 July,2025 07:56 AM IST | Mumbai | A CorrespondentIn time to come, this Edgbaston epic will be immortalised as Gill’s Test. India’s young captain — in age and in leadership experience — hardly put a foot wrong, everything he touched turning to gold as he orchestrated a famous, famous win. India had dominated four of the five days in Leeds, but it was England who prised the
08 July,2025 07:51 AM IST | Birmingham | R KaushikFormer England skipper Michael Vaughan castigated opening batsman Zak Crawley for his inconsistent show in the ongoing Test series against India. He also labelled him the luckiest player to have won so many Test caps despite repetitive failures. Criticising Crawley for a poor outing, Vaughan said, "There have been many players who have frustrated
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