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Indian Night Watchman Akash Deep made a notable young woman Test on Saturday and shared a century partnership with Yashsvi Jiswal on the fifth and final Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy Test at Oval on Saturday. Deep scored 66 off 94 balls, leading to India to 189–3 and increased to 166 runs at lunch time.Deep’s performance was especially notable as he became the 12th player to get both the Ten-Vicait race and fifty on the tour of England, joining Hugh Trimbal, Shane Warne, Imran Khan, Keith Miller and cricket legends such as Richard Hadley.
The knightwatchman’s innings consisted of 12 fours, and he formed a significant 107 -run partnership for the third wicket with Jaiswal before Etkinson dismissed just before lunch.Before this test, Deep’s achievement was even more notable, given its first class batting average of 11.48. He became only the fourth Indian to score fifty at number 4 in England in this century, with Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill.The partnership between Jaiswal and Deep marked a stand of 18th hundred runs in the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, setting a record for the most century partnership in a test series in the century, crossing 17 in the 2003-04 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
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Deep is also the first Indian nightwatchman to score more than 84 to 50 runs against England at the same place in 2011.The performance follows Deep’s outstanding bowling achievement in Edgbaston last month, where he took 10 wickets to help India secure his first test win at the 336 -run venue. The figures of his match of 10/187 set a new record for the best bowling figures by an Indian in England, breaking Chetan Sharma’s previous record of 10/188.India started day 3 with a score of 75/2, with Jaiswal unbeaten on 51 and deep at 4, 52 runs.At the time of the latest update, England scored 247 runs in their innings, with Zak Crolly contributed to 64 and Harry Brook 53, while Prasad Krishna took 4/62. India scored 224 runs in their first innings and had 263/5 in their second innings.
