The five-Test match series between England and India was a mixed bag of emotions for Akash Deep. After registering his best bowling figures in a Test match at Edgbaston, claiming four wickets in the first
innings and six in the second innings, he couldn’t replicate such a performance at Lord’s and missed the fourth Test played at Old Trafford. In the fifth Test at The Oval, Akash Deep returned to the playing XI, although he took only two wickets across both the innings with both being pivotal dismissals. It was his 66-run knock in India’s second innings in which he proved his mettle with the bat as well, and that might have been a moment of happiness for the player who was already struggling with a niggle.
Fresh from his heroics in the recently concluded England-India Test series, which ended 2-2, Akash Deep visited the revered Gorakhnath Mandir in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, on August 6, 2025, to seek blessings and offer gratitude for his remarkable achievements. According to the reports, Akash’s visit was a personal gesture to express gratitude for his recent successes and to seek blessings for his family, particularly his elder sister, Akhand Jyoti Singh, who is battling stage-three colon cancer. Akash dedicated his match-winning 10-wicket haul at Edgbaston to his sister. “Behen, yeh tumhare liye hai (Sister, this performance is dedicated to you),” he said after the game, revealing that he thought of her every time he held the ball during the Test.
Akash Deep’s 10-wicket haul helped India to secure a victory by 336 runs
In the Edgbaston Test, Akash Deep ended up taking ten wickets across both the innings. The 28-year-old pacer made history by becoming only the second Indian bowler to claim a 10-wicket match haul in Test cricket in England. This spell proved pivotal for India to secure a historic 336-run victory and end a 58-year winless streak at the venue. His fiery spells dismantled England’s top order, with notable dismissals of Joe Root, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, and Harry Brook, reportedly earning him comparisons to Mohammed Shami for his skiddy, stump-targeting bowling.
Akash Deep ended up winning the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2025 with 13 wickets, at the sixth highest spot. In the absence of Jasprit Bumrah in the second and the fifth Test, the young pace trio of Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, and Mohammed Siraj delivered fiery spells, to dominate the English batters for the most of the contest. The trio of these pacers took 50 wickets across the five-match Test series.
