How Akash Deep bought the wickets Bumrah and Siraj couldn’t
Kanpur: India’s Akash Deep with teammates celebrates the wicket of Zakir Hassan during the first day of the 2nd cricket Test match between India and Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium, in Kanpur, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma) (PTI09_27_2024_000058B) *** Local Caption ***
Hailing from Sasaram, a city in the Rohtas district in Bihar, the cricket stadium that Akash Deep knew was Green Park, some distance away in the Uttar Pradesh. Akash used to think, “Idhar sab kuch hara bhara hoga (It must be green everywhere).” But little did he know that the pitches here once used to be as flat as the Grand Trunk Road, which were built by Sher Shah Suri, an Afghan warlord from Sasaram, before it started producing out low turners. (READ MORE)
