Umesh Yadav has carved out a reputation for himself as one of the fastest bowlers for the national cricket team. He has bowled many valuable spells for the team.
Be it home or away conditions, the experienced campaigner has often delivered the goods with subtle bowling variations of good line and length.
The right-arm paceman is currently involved in the ongoing Border Gavaskar Trophy series against the Australian national cricket team. He didn’t get a chance to feature for India in the first two games.
However, he came in place of Mohammed Shami in the third Test match at Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore. He went on to account for three dismissals in the first innings against Australia.
In the process, he became the fastest Indian fast bowler to take 100 Test wickets at home. This is quite a magnificent achievement. He accomplished this feat after dismissing Mitchell Starc in the 74th over of Australia’s innings.
As a result, Umesh Yadav etched his name into the record books. He entered into the elite list of fast bowlers who have 100+ wickets in Test cricket at home.
Dinesh Karthik has sympathy for experienced Umesh Yadav
India’s experienced India wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik has sympathy for Umesh Yadav before adding that the Vidarbha paceman was often overlooked in the Indian cricket team.
While speaking to Cricbuzz on their ‘Rise of New India’ show, Dinesh Karthik opened up on Umesh Yadav’s journey to the Indian cricket team. It was a journey of how a son of a coal miner, who initially planned to become a police officer, eventually ended up being an Indian paceman.
The wicketkeeper went on to recall that Umesh Yadav tasted success in the initial years of his career. However, he fell out of the selection plans owing to some stiff competition in the pace bowling department.
“When he started playing for Vidarbha, he made it to the Indian team in 2010, that’s a growth fast rate. Then he kept going still at a certain point and then plateaued. When it happens to any cricketer, you feel hard done by. He is no different and he must have felt sad,” Karthik said.
“When you have an attack like Bumrah and Shami, the third one was always between Ishant and Umesh and a lot other times it would be Ishant, Shami, and Umesh. But when they played two medium pacers in India it became Ishant and Shami at times,” he further added.
“He was always overlooked at times and that must have really hurt him because every time he came in he produced a two or three-wicket performance but was never good enough to hold on to that place. You know he was thrown out…I think the hardest time was when he was unsold at an auction. That must have hurt him really bad,” he said.
