India tour of England 2025 - 5 Tests

[Ed Smith]

Ollie Pope's rapid transition from inventive T20 strokemaker to heavy Championship run scorer attracted the attention of England's national selector Ed Smith when Pope was given a Test debut against India as a specialist batsman in the summer of 2018.

How many of you knew that it was our very own Ed Smith who gave Pope his Test debut ?

Not guilty, M'lord.

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

Akash Deep what a beauty!!!!

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Roooooooootttttt

 

[Kamboh]

Akash Deep is bowling beautifully.

 

[BasketballHooper]

Pacers for the next match for India should be Bumrah, Siraj and Akash Deep

 

[BasketballHooper]

Akash Deep strikes again !

 

[BasketballHooper]

Akash Deep just can't be stopped !!!!!

 

[Kamboh]

Akash Deep strikes again !

once again he strikes

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

Akash Deep a.k.a. Mr. Birmingham

 

[asprin]

If England manage to draw from here, it would be some watch.

 

[BasketballHooper]

Should've got Smith in this one. Very unlucky.

 

[Fenil]

Fun fact: England were 84/5 in the first innings and went on stitch a 300 run partnership from there.

 

[BasketballHooper]

Fun fact: England were 84/5 in the first innings and went on stitch a 300 run partnership from there.

Ain't gonna happen this time tho

 

[Fenil]

I can only wonder how good a show would a combination of Bumrah, Shami, Akashdeep and a peak Bhuvi or even Siraj for that matter have put in seaming conditions?! A dream for any Indian cricket fan from the 90s who have seen the team relying on only Srinath or Zaheer to lead the pace attack and have seen Ganguly bowl as a second or third pacer. Heck even Kumble bowled seam ups on one occasion.

 

[Fenil]

Ain't gonna happen this time tho

Maybe but we need to pick those 5 wickets in a stipulated overs. It's a race against time and rain.