Umesh Yadav

Umesh Yadav
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Club: Royal Challengers Bangalore
Position: Bowler
Nationality: Indian
Age: 25.10.1987 (37)
Batting style: Right-Handed Bat
Wife: Tanya Wadhwa
Bowling style: Right-Arm Fast
Height: 5 ft. 8 in. (1.78m)
Weight: 75 Kgs
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Team: India National Cricket Team 2011-2020
Team: India National Cricket Team 2010-2018
Team: India National Cricket Team 2012-2019
Team: RCB 2010-2020
Runs scored
340
Batting average
11.33
Balls faced
682
50s
0
100s
0
Runs scored
79
Batting average
7.9
Balls faced
134
50s
0
100s
0
Runs scored
2
Batting average
2.0
Balls faced
4
50s
0
100s
0
Runs scored
122
Batting average
8.71
Balls faced
128
50s
0
100s
0

Season Team League
2011-2020 India National Cricket Team TEST
2010-2018 India National Cricket Team ICC ODI Championship
2012-2019 India National Cricket Team T20I
2010-2020 Royal Challengers Bangalore Indian Premier League

Umesh Yadav

Transfer Career

  • 2008–present Vidarbha
  • 2009–2013 Delhi Daredevils
  • 2014–2017 Kolkata Knight Riders
  • 2018–present Royal Challengers Bangalore

 

Biography

Umesh Kumar Tilak Yadav is an Indian cricketer who represents the nation at the international stage. At the domestic level, the player plays for the Vidarbha cricket team. He was born on 25 October 1987 in Nagpur, Maharashtra. Umesh is a right-arm-fast-medium bowler and is the first player from the Vidarbha region to represent India in Test cricket.

He became the highest wicket-taker for India in Cricket World Cup 2015. He is also the highest wicket-taker who took the maximum number of wickets for India in Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2012. In the 2015 IPL auction, Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) bought Umesh Yadav for a whopping amount of 5.5 crores. However, Umesh managed to take wickets in seven matches with an economy rate of 9.00.

In the Indian Premier League 2012, Yadav made a comeback by becoming the fourth-highest wicket-taker in the tournament. He took 19 wickets from 17 matches. Currently, Umesh is playing with Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore.

His father was a coal-miner, and to feed his family, he tried to enter the Police force and Army. After several attempts when teenaged Umesh Yadav could not take his place in any government job, he turned to cricket to make both ends meet. Tanya Wadhwa, who is a fashion designer by profession, is the wife of Umesh Yadav.