{"id":329679,"date":"2025-08-09T04:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329679\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T04:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:44:13","slug":"after-england-heroics-akash-deeps-big-day-off-the-field-buys-dream-car-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329679\/","title":{"rendered":"After England heroics, Akash Deep&#8217;s big day off the field: Buys dream car | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123193353.jpg\" alt=\"After England heroics, Akash Deep's big day off the field: Buys dream car\" title=\"Akash Deep (Image credit: Getty Images) \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Akash Deep (Image credit: Getty Images)  NEW DELHI: Indian fast bowler Akash Deep marked a special moment in his career by purchasing a new car and sharing pictures from the showroom with his family on Instagram. The celebration came shortly after his standout batting performance as a nightwatchman in the final Test against England at The Oval, where he scored 66 runs and played a key role in India&#8217;s series-levelling victory.Akash posted photos of the car delivery on social media, captioning them: &#8220;Dream delivered. Keys received. With the ones who matter most.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>India vs England Day 5: Can India do the UNTHINKABLE at The Oval? Four wickets and 2-2!<\/p>\n<p>The pacer was promoted to the No. 4 position late on Day 2 of the Test match as a nightwatchman. On Day 3, he impressed everyone with a gritty knock of 66 runs off 94 deliveries, helping India post a competitive total of 396.&#8221;When I went to sleep last night, my mindset was that I don&#8217;t want to get out. Even if the ball makes me out, I don&#8217;t want to be out. Even if the ball is on the body, I want to play,&#8221; Akash said, sharing insights into his mindset during the innings.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image credit: Akash Deep's Instagram\" msid=\"123193312\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-credit-akash-deeps-instagram.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/>He stitched a crucial 107-run partnership with opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, frustrating the English bowlers and anchoring India\u2019s innings.&#8221;Where there was a need to play the ball, we set up a 100-run partnership with Jashu (Yashasvi Jaiswal). So this is very special for me. The fifty is special, but more than that, the two hours that I played for the team in the morning is even more special,&#8221; he added.Jaiswal also lauded Akash\u2019s effort, saying: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s just wonderful the way he batted. We were having a good chat in the middle. Yeah, I hope he&#8217;ll keep doing this for us.&#8221;India eventually secured a 6-run victory in the fifth Test, finishing the five-match series in a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Akash Deep (Image credit: Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Indian fast bowler Akash Deep marked a special moment in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[96601,1406,118624,50335,16397,46269,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-329679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-akash-deep","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-england-vs-india-series","11":"tag-ind-vs-eng","12":"tag-india-cricket-team","13":"tag-india-vs-england","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114996986820324842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}