Mohammed Siraj And Akash Deep Help India Become 1st Team In The World To...
Thanks to Siraj and Akash's super show with the ball, six English batters—Duckett, Pope, Stokes, Carse, Tongue, and Bashir—failed to open their accounts in the first innings.
Mohammed Siraj picked up six wickets for 70 runs in 19.4 overs, and Akash Deep finished with figures of 4 for 88 in 20 overs on Friday (July 4) to help India bowl England out for 407 runs in the first innings of the ongoing second Test at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
The duo dismissed as many as six English batters for a duck in the first innings of the second Test, and their super effort with the ball helped the Shubman Gill-led side become the first team in the world to get half a dozen English batters out for naught in one innings of a Test match.
On four previous occasions, five English batters scored ducks in an inning of a Test match, but Friday was the first time when as many as six batters failed to open their accounts.
Akash Deep started the proceedings for India by dismissing Ben Duckett for a five-ball duck on Thursday evening. Duckett was caught by Shubman Gill in the slip on the fourth ball of the third over of England's first innings. On the next ball, Akash dismissed Ollie Pope for a golden duck.
Siraj joined the party on Friday morning by getting England Test captain Ben Stokes out for a golden duck in the first session, and then in the third session, he dismissed Bryon Carse, Josh Tongue, and Shoaib Bashir for zero each.
Siraj's figures of 6 for 70 also helped him become first Indian bowler to take a six-wicket haul in England as well as South Africa.
A total of eight Indian bowlers—Ishant Sharma, Amar Singh, Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, Chetan Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Dilip Doshi, Bishan Singh Bedi, and Siraj—have dismissed six or more English batters in one innings of a Test match played in England, and seven Indian bowlers—Shardul Thakur, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Jasprit Bumrah, Javagal Srinath, Ravindra Jadeja, and Siraj—have picked up a six-wicket haul in South Africa, but only Siraj is the only common name in both lists.
Siraj opened his wicket account in the first innings of the second Test on Thursday by taking Zak Crawley's wicket. Crawley was caught by Karun Nair in the slips after making 19 runs from 30 balls.
He picked up Joe Root's (22) and Ben Stokes's (0) wickets in back-to-back balls on Friday morning before dismissing the last three batters in the third session.
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July 04, 2025, 22:58 IST
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