Umesh Yadav Cricket Indian

Umesh Yadav

IndianRight Arm Bowl
IPL All Time Stats
141 Mat
486.4 Overs
4107 Runs
136 W
8.43 E/R

Personal Information

Full Name Umesh Kumar Tilak Yadav
Date of Birth October 25, 1987
Age 35 Years
Nationality Indian
Birth Place Nagpur, Maharashtra
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Current Team(s)
Role Bowler/Right-arm fast, Right-handed Batsman
Batting Style Right hand Bat
Bowling Style Right arm Fast
Debut November 6, 2011
Jersey No. 19
Family Tanya Wadhwa (Spouse), Tilak Yadav (Father), Kishori Devi (Mother)

Most Recent Matches

Match R BF 4s 6s S/R O R W E/R
NOR vs ESS 24 & 11 18 & 12 3 & 1 1 & 0 133.33 & 91.66 18 98 1 5.44
ESS vs HAM 51 & 12 45 & 3 3 & 0 4 & 2 113.33 & 400.00 12 & 3 38 & 16 0 & 0 3.17 & 5.33
ESS vs MID 18 & 5 16 & 2 2 & 1 1 & 0 112.50 & 250.00 9 & 12 27 & 32 0 & 3 3.00 & 2.66
AUS vs IND 5 & 1 11 & 12 1 & 0 0 & 0 45.45 & 8.33 23 & 17 77 & 54 0 & 2 3.35 & 3.18
KKR vs RCB 0 0 0 0 0 1 19 0 19.00

Batting Stats

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Game Type Mat Inn R BF NO Avg S/R 100s 50s H 4s 6s Ct St
ODIs 75 24 79 134 14 7.90 58.95 0 0 18 8 1 22 0
TESTs 56 66 454 860 27 11.64 52.79 0 0 31 41 24 19 0
T20Is 9 2 22 21 1 22.00 104.76 0 0 20 2 0 3 0
T20s 180 65 307 252 37 10.96 121.82 0 0 26 23 17 49 0
LISTAs 130 61 322 341 27 9.47 94.42 0 0 30 28 15 36 0
FIRSTCLASS 111 131 1205 1712 51 15.06 70.38 1 1 128 125 55 38 0

Bowling Stats

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Game Type Mat Inn O R W Avg E/R Best 5w 10w
ODIs 75 73 593 3565 106 33.63 6.01 4/31 0 0
TESTs 56 110 1456.3 5132 168 30.54 3.52 10/133 3 1
T20Is 9 9 30 280 12 23.33 9.33 2/19 0 0
T20s 180 178 620.2 5132 178 28.83 8.27 5/18 1 0
LISTAs 130 128 1056 6054 186 32.54 5.73 5/26 2 0
FIRSTCLASS 111 203 3067.5 10103 345 29.28 3.29 12/79 15 2

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Umesh Yadav: A Brief Biography

Umesh Kumar Tilak Yadav is a part of the fearsome Indian pace battery that is currently ruling the Test arena. He is one of the back-up bowlers currently and waiting in the wings to grab the opportunities.


Table of Contents


  1. Biography- About Umesh Yadav
  2. Along the Years- Umesh Yadav
  3. Records
  4. Career
  5. Family


Biography- About Umesh Yadav


Umesh Kumar Tilak Yadav is an Indian international cricketer who represents Vidarbha cricket team in domestic first-class cricket competition. Born on 25 October 1987, he is a right-arm fast-medium bowler hailing from Nagpur, Maharashtra. He is the first player from the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra to represent India in Test cricket.


Along the Years- Umesh Yadav


YearAge Achievement
200821First Class debut for Vidarbha
201023Selected for 2010 T20 WC
201023ODI debut against Zimbabwe
201124Joined Delhi Daredevils
201124Test debut vs West Indies
201225T20I debut against Sri Lanka
201326Selected for the Champions Trophy squad
201427Went to Kolkata Knight Riders
201528Highest Indian wicket taker in 2015 WC
201730Selected for Champions Trophy
201831Bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore

Records


  1. Highest wicket taker for India in CWC2015
  2. Highest wicket taker for India in Border-Gavaskar trophy 2012


Career


Domestic Career


His experience of playing cricket with Leather ball earned him a place in the Vidarbha to represent them in the Plate League of the Ranji Trophy during the 2007-08 season. On 3 November 2008, Yadav made his first-class debut for Vidarbha against Madhya. He went on to claim 4 wickets in the first innings but didn’t bowl in the second innings as they lost the encounter by 10 wickets.


India Test Headshots Session

He featured in 4 matches that season claiming 20 wickets at an average of 14.60 with the best figures of 6/105. Yadav was selected to represent the Central Zone in the Duleep Trophy in his first season. However, it was his rapid pace, regularly clocking in the mid-140s along with considerable swing even against the direction of the seam, that caught the eye of the national selectors.


IPL Career


In the player auction for the 2011 Indian Premier League, Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) bought Yadav for $750,000. However, he managed just two wickets from seven matches while conceding 169 runs at an average of over nine runs per over.


At the 2012 Indian Premier League, he finished as the fourth-highest wicket-taker in the tournament, picking up 19 wickets from 17 matches.

He was brought in the player auction for the 2014 Indian Premier League by Kolkata Knight Riders for $419,355, where he went on to be one of the main players in their bowling unit.


After four fruitful seasons at KKR Umesh was let go for the 2018 edition. Royal Challengers Bangalore took that opportunity and bought him for INR 4.2 crore. He immediately repaid the faith in the management by claiming 20 wickets in his first season and was also retained for the next year. There still is the weakness of bowling at the death and it remains Umesh's Achilles' heel.


International Career


ODI career


After being included in the 2010 T20 World Cup squad, Yadav, a month later included in the squad that played a tri-nation ODI series in Zimbabwe against the hosts and Sri Lanka. The majority of the first team were either rested or injured which opened the door for nine young players who impressed in the domestic cricket.


Yadav being one amongst them made his ODI debut during India's shocking loss to Zimbabwe. Defending a score of 285, Yadav bowled eight wicketless overs while conceding 48 runs. Playing in three matches that series, Yadav took just a single wicket.


In the tri-series in Australia in 2012, he bowled at 152.5 kmph against Sri Lanka at Brisbane, which is still the fourth fastest ball bowled by an Indian behind Javagal Srinath, Ishant Sharma, and Varun Aaron.


Yadav returned to international cricket in the 2013 Champions' trophy and did reasonably well, His performances with the ball ensured that he landed a ticket for the quadrennial event in Australia and New Zealand. He finished the World Cup by picking 18 wickets and finishing the tournament as India's highest wicket-taker and the third-highest overall.


Umesh Yadav was selected for the 2017 Champions Trophy too but with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah in the team he got to play only two matches where he took three wickets.


T20 Career


After a string of impressive performances in the domestic circuit, he was called into India's squad for the 2010 World Twenty20 in place of the injured Praveen Kumar but was benched for the whole tournament. Ultimately he made his T20I debut two years later against Sri Lanka.


Test Career


Yadav made his Test debut in the first match when West Indies toured in November 2011 and opened the bowling in the first innings, though failed to take a wicket. In the second innings, Yadav took two wickets for 36 runs to help India to a five-wicket victory. As India won the second Test, Yadav finished with nine wickets, being India's most successful fast bowler in the series.

When India toured Australia in 2011–12, which India lost 4-0, during the third Test at the WACA Ground in Perth, Yadav took his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket, with figures of 5/93 in Australia's first and only innings.


While India was drubbed by Australia during the 2012 down under tour and many senior players couldn’t perform, Umesh Yadav stood out from the rest. With his pace and seam movement Yadav scalped 14 Aussie wickets in four Tests, and became India's highest wicket-taker on the tour. However, soon came the injuries and in December 2012, Yadav was ruled out of both the second and third test against England due to a lower back injury.


He was roped in by the selectors for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia in 2014/15 due to the lack of options in terms of fast bowling. Yadav exhibited his potential and penetration with 11 wickets across the last 3 Tests. He was part of the winning 2018 India squad in Australia too but got limited chances to prove his mettle.


Family


Hailing from Nagpur, the son of a coal-miner had a family to feed and pursued a career as a police officer. After several failed attempts in the police force and the army, a teen-aged Umesh Yadav turned to cricket in a desperate attempt to make ends meet. Umesh Yadav is married to Tanya Wadhwa. Tanya is a fashion designer by profession. Both met during an IPL match and she is fond of cricket.