New Delhi: The Indian batsmen scored more than a thousand runs on a track without Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami. In Sunday's game at Edgbaston, Akash Deep and the other bowlers put on a display that merits consideration as one of India's greatest, helping the squad secure its first ever victory there.

The venue's current record is nine games played, seven games lost, one game tied, and one amazing victory. They don't care about the past, as Shubman Gill stated before the game. They have established some of their own history. Gill's inaugural victory as Test captain and India's maiden triumph.

The first Asian nation to win a Test at Edgbaston is also Gill's squad. It's noteworthy that Asian teams have played a combined 19 Tests at this location (India 9, Pakistan 8, and Sri Lanka 2).

The second Test in India called for some magic, and it came from Mohammed Siraj (6/70 and 1/57) and Deep (4/88 and 6/99) in equal measure. Gill's superb batting will be remembered for India's largest away Test victory (in terms of runs), which totaled 336, but the bowlers were the ones who made the result possible.

Everyone who saw Deep sprint in hard, place the ball on a coin, hit the cracks, and produce movement (where England and nearly every other bowler discovered none) will never forget it. In the match, he took 10 wickets, making him just the second Indian bowler to ever do so in England. The first was Chetan Sharma, who also played at Edgbaston in 1986 and took 10/188 in England.

However, this was a spell that was fueled by heart as well as rhythm and wit.

Shortly after taking the last wicket, Deep said, "The last two months have been quite hard because my sister has been diagnosed with cancer." "I will devote this game to her." I'm hoping this will make her smile. Her face was always in my head when I was approaching the bowl.

His clarity of mind is evident in the way he approached the angles, the lines he bowled, and the way he prepared the hitters. He seemed to immediately grasp what he needed to do and how he should do it.

The 28-year-old applied a lot of what he learned on his trip from Sasaram in Bihar to the Indian cricket team. His journey from Bihar to Bengal against the will of his parents, his accuracy honed in the tennis ball tournaments around Durgapur and Asansol, and his bowling instincts honed by working on courses designed for batting all fueled his hunger.

"When I landed here, I thought there would be swing and seam movement, but there wasn't," Deep told the broadcasters on Saturday. They play run-based Test cricket and create wickets in this manner. (These are the kind of wickets these guys produce; they play Test cricket in order to score runs.)

In a sense, he felt at ease. CricViz claims that since 2005, only three pitches in England have been flatter than this one, and that the fatal blow was that England might only last 160 overs on this kind of surface.

"I've played a lot on such wickets," Deep told JioHotStar after the game. "I wanted to throw good line and length in the right areas. I was aiming for a powerful strike.

Joe Root and the way he was arranged were evident. For a while, I bowled directly at him before veering off and delivering the ball. The ball bowled Root on the fourth evening, just as I had imagined it would.

He is more likely to attack the stumps because that is what he is familiar with. He is more similar to Shami than Bumrah in that way. With the new ball, he was lethal, and five of his ten dismissals in the Test were either leg before or bowled.

The day was never about the hosts attempting for a victory, as England started the day at 72/3 and the start was pushed back by rain and a wet outfield. Rather, it was about them attempting to kill time, which is not something that this Bazball club is used to.

Deep said, "I don't think about getting opportunities, but when I get an opportunity, I think about making that count for my team," and he kept his word.

To start the victory, he took two quick wickets on Day 5, first catching Ollie Pope off guard with a delivery that appeared to rush off the wicket, and then trapping Harry Brook leg before with a wickedly jagging ball.

"He (Deep) hit the right lengths and was getting the ball to move both ways, which was difficult on a pitch like this," Gill stated following the game. He was great for us.

The Indian bowlers were so skilled that as the game progressed, England captain Ben Stokes believed the pitch favored India over his team.

It might be time for England to reconsider its pitch strategy. India has had the best bowling average (24.82) of any nation since January 1, 2017. The team's performance was primarily due to the batting, which in the same period has averaged only 25.37 in SENA nations.

However, by using a flat batting surface, England has given India's batsmen a chance to establish themselves, and the bowlers seldom let them down when this occurs.

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