The way Akash Deep bought wickets Bumrah and Siraj couldn’t
Kanpur: India’s Akash Deep and his teammates celebrate the wicket of Zakir Hassan on the first day of the second cricket Test match between India and Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium, Kanpur, on Friday, September 27, 2024 (PTI/Vijay Verma photo) (PTI09_27_2024_000058B) *** Location Caption ***
From Sasaram, a town in the Rohtas district of Bihar, the cricket ground Akash Deep knows is Green Park, some distance away in Uttar Pradesh. Akash used to think, “Idhar sab kuch hara bhara hoga (It should be green everywhere).” But he did not know that the fields here were once as flat as the Great Trunk Road, which was built by Sher Shah Suri, the Afghan warlord of Sasaram, before it began to produce low curves. (READ MORE)