{"id":38634,"date":"2025-08-01T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38634\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:36:10","slug":"akash-deep-taunts-ben-duckett-as-tensions-boil-in-fifth-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38634\/","title":{"rendered":"Akash Deep taunts Ben Duckett as tensions boil in fifth Test;"},"content":{"rendered":"

England<\/a> batting coach Marcus Trescothick said India bowler Akash Deep was lucky not to be elbowed by England batter Ben Duckett after the paceman sparked a series of explosive incidents at The Oval.<\/p>\n

Tensions almost reached boiling point in the deciding Test when the India seamer put an arm around Duckett’s shoulder after having the opener caught behind for 43.<\/p>\n

The dismissal came not long after Duckett was heard telling Deep “you can’t get me out”.<\/p>\n

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International Cricket Council rules on “inappropriate physical contact” could see Deep fined.<\/p>\n

Duckett did not react as he walked off, but Deep had to be pulled away by KL Rahul.<\/p>\n

“I was just saying many in my time, a lot of players would have just dropped the elbow on him. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bowler do that after getting someone out,” said Trescothick.<\/p>\n

“You see bowlers have many words like we’ve seen a bit in this series on both sides. But it was just different wasn’t it? I was just laughing and joking about it.<\/p>\n

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Akash Deep puts his arm around Ben Duckett.\u00a0FOX Sports<\/p>\n

“Ben doesn’t really do a great deal. Put your head down and walk off, your job is done at that point. There is no need to walk him off in that fashion.”<\/p>\n

In commentary, former Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik lauded Duckett for remaining calm in the situation.<\/p>\n

“Not sure if this is the right way to send off a batter especially after you’ve got him out. Not many batsmen would behave the way Ben Duckett,” he said.<\/p>\n

Former England captain also called it “unnecessary”.<\/p>\n

The clash sparked a furious response from England captain Joe Root, who had a heated exchange with Prasidh Krishna as he ran between the wickets later in the innings.<\/p>\n

Root shouted at Krishna, clearly incensed by the act.<\/p>\n

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Ben Duckett walks off without reacting.\u00a0FOX Sports<\/p>\n

“It was a very small thing. It was just a combative edge that was coming out. We are good mates off the field. It was just a bit of banter and we both enjoyed it,” Krishna said post-match.<\/p>\n

Krishna revealed it was part of part of India’s plan to unsettle Root, who was eventually dismissed by Mohammed Siraj for just 29.<\/p>\n

“I think that was the plan but I didn’t think the couple of words I said would get such a big reaction from him,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I love the guy, he is a legend of the game. It’s great when two people are out there wanting to do their best.”<\/p>\n

Krishna was involved in another clash when he threw the ball towards Zak Crawley, hitting his bat in the process, after fielding a shot from the England opener.<\/p>\n

England hold a 2-1 lead in the series with three days left in the deciding Test, with India leading by 52 runs at 2-75 in their second innings when bad light stopped play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England batting coach Marcus Trescothick said India bowler Akash Deep was lucky not to be elbowed by England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-38634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}