Ex-India cricketer Arun Lal said there is "no bigger" hitter than RCB pacer Akash Deep, adding that he himself doesn't know his strength yet. "Akash got a fifty with eight sixes," he stated. Akash scored an unbeaten 53 off 18 balls in Bengal's first innings of the Ranji Trophy 2022 quarter-final against Jharkhand. He had a strike rate of 294.44.