Akash Deep Returns With Perspective After Seven-Month Injury Layoff
India pacer Akash Deep is set to return to competitive cricket for Rest of India in the Irani Cup against Jammu and Kashmir from Thursday, ending a seven-month absence caused by a stress fracture in his lower back. The 29-year-old fast bowler says the enforced break gave him a sharper appreciation of his career, his body and the hardships that shaped him long before international cricket arrived.
