Pacer Akash Deep produced a sensational bowling display to take 6 for 99 in England's second innings and register a match haul of ten wickets as India defeated England by 336 runs at Edgbaston on Sunday.
This dominance is India's first-ever Test victory at the historic Birmingham ground and equalizes the five-match Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series at 1-1.
India went into the second Test under pressure, trailing 0-1 in the series after a shock defeat at Leeds. Without pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah and choosing not to include Kuldeep Yadav, India handed the new ball responsibilities to Akash Deep — and the 27-year-old stepped up in style. On a flat fifth-day surface, he consistently challenged the English batters, helping to bundle them out for 271 well before the final session.
With this effort, Akash Deep is just the second Indian bowler to take a ten-wicket match haul in England, after Chetan Sharma's 10 for 188, which was also accomplished in Birmingham, in 1986.
Support roles were played by Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ravindra Jadeja, and Washington Sundar, each taking a wicket. Team leader Shubman Gill, who scored 269 and 161, achieved his first win as India's Test captain, completing a memorable personal and team performance.
Rain had held up the resumption of play on day five by 100 minutes, but it did nothing to stall India's momentum. The visitors dispatched the remaining seven wickets in a hurry, clinching a result that helped them break the haunting ghosts of the narrow defeat at Headingley.
Match Summary
India:
1st innings – 587
2nd innings – 427/6 decl.
England:
1st innings – 407
2nd innings – 271 all out (68.1 overs)
England 2nd Innings – Batting Scorecard
| Batter | Dismissal
|
Runs |
| 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 all out in 68.1 overs
Fall of wickets:
1-11 (Crawley, 1.4), 2-30 (Duckett, 4.3), 3-50 (Root, 10.2),
4-80 (Pope, 19.1), 5-83 (Brook, 21.3), 6-153 (Stokes, 40.3),
7-199 (Woakes, 52.1), 8-226 (Smith, 55.4), 9-246 (Tongue, 63.5),
10-271 (Carse, 68.1)
Bowling – India
| Bowler | Overs
|
Maidens
|
Runs
|
Wickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Test Wins (by Runs)
336 runs vs England – Birmingham, 2025
318 runs vs West Indies – North Sound, 2019
295 runs vs Australia – Perth, 2024
279 runs vs England – Leeds, 1986
278 runs vs Sri Lanka – Colombo, 2015
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