Deep strikes as India hammer England in second Test
Deep was playing in the second Test of the five-match series after India rested outstanding quick Jasprit Bumrah.
The 28-year-old took 6-99 as England, set a mammoth 608 runs to win, were dismissed for 271 on the fifth day.
Deep's match figures of 10-147 were far and away the best of his eight-Test career.
Jamie Smith was the lone England batsman to pass fifty in the second innings, with the wicketkeeper's 88 following his brilliant 184 not out first time around.
A crushing victory gave India their maiden Test win in nine matches at Edgbaston following seven defeats and a draw at the Birmingham ground.
This game was also a personal triumph for India captain Shubman Gill after he became the first batsman in Test cricket to post scores of 250 and 150 in the same match.
The 25-year-old's majestic 269 in the first innings was followed by a dashing 161 off 162 balls in the second.
Gill has now scored three hundreds in his first two Tests as captain following his 147 during India's five-wicket loss in the series opener at Headingley.
History was against England when they resumed at 72-3 after rain delayed Sunday's start by more than 90 minutes.
No Test side have made more in the fourth innings to win than the West Indies' 418 against Australia at St John's in 2003.
- Early blow -
India, bidding for just a fourth series win in England, struck an early blow when Ollie Pope failed to add his overnight 24 by deflecting a Deep ball of extra bounce onto the stumps.
His exit brought in England captain Ben Stokes, on a king pair after his first golden duck in Tests in the first innings.
But Stokes, without a Test hundred in two years, avoided the embarrassment of two noughts in the same match with a legside flick.
England were soon 83-5, however, when Harry Brook was lbw for 23 to a Deep delivery that hit him on the back knee.
Brook, who made 158 in England's first innings while sharing a stand of over 300 with Smith that kept the hosts afloat, optimistically reviewed.
But the confirmation of his dismissal was greeted by raucous cheers from the large number of India fans at Edgbaston.
Smith helped Stokes briefly keep India at bay during a sixth-wicket partnership of 70.
But in the last over before lunch Stokes was lbw for 33 to off-spinner Washington Sundar, the first India bowler other than Deep or Mohammed Siraj to take a wicket in the match.
England were 153-6 at the interval and after lunch Smith defiantly hit 17 off a Sundar over, including two soaring straight sixes.
But Chris Woakes fell tamely for seven when a miscued pull off Prasidh Krishna lobbed gently to midwicket.
Smith pulled Deep for two successive sixes to go to 88.
But it was a case of third time unlucky for the 24-year-old when trying to repeat the shot next ball, he holed out to Sundar at deep backward square leg off a well-disguised slower delivery to give Deep his fifth wicket of the innings.
At 226-8, the writing was on the wall for England.
Tailender Josh Tongue was brilliantly caught by a diving Siraj at midwicket before Brydon Carse holed out off Deep to cover where Gill, the player of the match, fittingly took the clinching catch.
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