Akashdeep

[singhvivek141]

31 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

Akashdeep was recovering from dengue when he was in Australia. He was not able to bowl at his full pace or with full effort.

 

I think his natural length is 6m to 8m. In Australia, one needs to bowl a tad fuller due to the bouncy pitches.

He did in Australia during the first test if I remember correctly, but he doesn't get much bounce so they were able to drive him day in and day out.
He pulled lengths back by a bit in second game.
Though, he did induced so many hit and miss, was entirely unlucky to not get more wickets.

[vayuu1]

Dedicated his performance to his elder sister who is suffering from Cancer damn, imagine the pressure kudos to him and hope his sister recovers ASAP 

[Lord]

Liked him since his debut. Very Shami like. 

 

Hope he gets regular chances now 

[singhvivek141]

2 minutes ago, Lord said:

Liked him since his debut. Very Shami like. 

 

Hope he gets regular chances now 

On X, people are saying baton is passed from Shami to Akashdeep.

Shami hasn't even retired, and people are passing baton. 

 

 

[ravishingravi]

Grounded and thinking cricketer 

 

 

[Lord]

 

[rkt.india]

9 hours ago, Lord said:

Liked him since his debut. Very Shami like. 

 

Hope he gets regular chances now 

He is no way Shami like. He is a new ball bowler. Shami is mostly an old ball bowler subcontinent conditions specialist. 

[singhvivek141]

1 hour ago, rkt.india said:

He is no way Shami like. He is a new ball bowler. Shami is mostly an old ball bowler subcontinent conditions specialist. 

He is regarded similar to Shami courtesy of his runup, accuracy and ability to attack the stumps. Ofcourse, Shami was a better old ball/reverse swing master at the start of his career, while Akash is predominantly a new ball bowler.

[Number]

2 hours ago, rkt.india said:

He is no way Shami like. He is a new ball bowler. Shami is mostly an old ball bowler subcontinent conditions specialist. 

Shami was obviously more skillful with the old ball because of the revserve he used to get. But there is similarity in both of them where they both get the ball to skid off the surface and when ball lands on seam it deviates a lot.

[rkt.india]

55 minutes ago, Number said:

Shami was obviously more skillful with the old ball because of the revserve he used to get. But there is similarity in both of them where they both get the ball to skid off the surface and when ball lands on seam it deviates a lot.

But shami hardly did that with old bowl. Shami bowled with up right seam which is good for bounce, not for movement. 

[vvvslaxman]

I don't think it has quiet sunk in for Akash deep. The magnititude of his achievement. IT is a flat wicket against a strong , deep batting line up.

 

 

 

[R!TTER]

6 hours ago, rkt.india said:

Shami bowled with up right seam which is good for bounce, not for movement. 

If anything an upright seam gets more movement, but he didn't have that control like say Anders or Broad.

[Rightarmfast]

10 hours ago, rkt.india said:

He is no way Shami like. He is a new ball bowler. Shami is mostly an old ball bowler subcontinent conditions specialist. 

Relax yaar. Just like Shami, he is also balding, Just like Shami, his english is also mashallah. Ab to bas, choice of girls dekhna baki reh gaya hai... Agar cheerleader se fansa, tab to poora Shami bhai ka hi shagird hai 

[New guy]

10 hours ago, rkt.india said:

He is no way Shami like. He is a new ball bowler. Shami is mostly an old ball bowler subcontinent conditions specialist. 

He was reversing last match, commentators were pointing it out.

[vvvslaxman]

What is common between dismissal of Root/Pope/Brook. No prize for guessing from the image.

 

[rkt.india]

2 hours ago, R!TTER said:

If anything an upright seam gets more movement, but he didn't have that control like say Anders or Broad.

Not really. Upright seam gets seam movement which is more prevalent in south africa, not that much in England. In England, you need to swing the ball and upright seam does not help in conventional swing. To swing the ball, you need tilted seam; towards slip for outswing like Dale steyn and anderson, towards fine leg for in swing which anderson was master at and Bhuvi when he started his india career.  

 

Lately, shami too started doing the tilted seam for swing but it takes a lot of practice. Upright seam is highly overrated.

 Here is the seam positions for inswing and outswing.

 

Edited July 7, 2025 by rkt.india

[Lord]

12 hours ago, rkt.india said:

He is no way Shami like. He is a new ball bowler. Shami is mostly an old ball bowler subcontinent conditions specialist. 

 

Akash can reverse it, ofcourse not Shami level

 

But action and lengths they hit is similar, especially to lefties

[rkt.india]

10 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

Akash can reverse it, ofcourse not Shami level

 

But action and lengths they hit is similar, especially to lefties

I didn't say he can't reverse swing the ball. Anyone who can conventionally swing can also swing the old ball if he has decent pace but old ball doesn't just mean reverse swing.  Bowling with old also means being an enforcer, able to bowl good bouncers too, hit deck hard if nothing is happening.

[express bowling]

2 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

What is common between dismissal of Root/Pope/Brook. No prize for guessing from the image.

 

 

All 3 deliveries at 85 mph

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, express bowling said:

 

All 3 deliveries at 85 mph

yup. He was fairly consistent with speeds albeit two dismissals happened on day 5 one on day 4.