Umesh Yadav

Umesh Yadav is an Indian cricketer who currently plays for the Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League, the Indian national team, and the Vidarbha cricket team. He played a crucial role in the Indian team that won the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. Born on 25 October 1987, he is a right-arm fast-medium bowler hailing from Nagpur, Maharashtra. He has been a vital part of the Vidarbha team since 2008 in the domestic competition. He specialises in the Test cricket format and regularly gets a call up for Test series. He is also the first Vidarbha player to play for India in the Test.

Umesh Yadav: Along the Years 

Umesh Yadav Records 

• Highest wicket taker for India in CWC2015

• Highest wicket taker for India in Border-Gavaskar trophy 2012

• He is the first player to represent the Indian team from the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.

• He delivered his fastest bowl against Sri Lanka at 155.5 km/hr.

• Highest batting strike rate in an innings in Test cricket

Umesh Yadav Awards and Accolades 

• 10 IPL PLayer of the Match awards, the most by any pacer.

Umesh Yadav Career 

Umesh Yadav, a right-arm fast bowler, is the first player of the Vidarbha team to have played in an International Test for India. He has been representing the club at the domestic level since 2008. In May 2010, he played his first One Day International (ODI) match against Zimbabwe. In November of the following year, Yadav played his first Test match against the West Indies. In the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, he was India's top wicket-taker and ranked third overall. After hitting 31 runs in 10 balls at a strike rate of 310 against South Africa in October 2019, he set the record for the highest strike rate in an innings in Test cricket.

Umesh Yadav 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.

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.

Umesh Yadav 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.

In 2019, he grabbed eight wickets in 11 matches and played only two matches in 2020. Delhi Capitals signed Umesh when he was released by RCB prior to the 2021 IPL auction. He was picked up by the Kolkata Knight Riders in February 2022 at the Indian Premier League 2022 mega auction. He had his greatest IPL performance in 2022, grabbing four wickets against the Punjab Kings and taking 16 wickets overall. After being released by KKR, he was signed by GT in 2024 IPL mimi auction for INR 5.8 crore. He will appear in the Gujarat Titans jersey for the 2024 IPL season.

Umesh Yadav International Career 

Umesh Yadav is a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman from Nagpur, Maharashtra. The cricketer from Vidarbha is 5 feet 11 inch tall. Umesh is one of the fastest pacers in India. Yadav, who was born on May 25, 1987, is a veteran with immense experience in both the domestic and international cricket. He played for the Delhi Daredevils in his first IPL season in 2010. Yadav made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Zimbabwe in May 2010 and has been a member of the Vidarbha team since 2008. Yadav played his first Test match against the West Indies in November 2011. 

Umesh Yadav ODI Career 

After being included in the 2010 T20 World Cup squad, Yadav, a month later, was 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 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.

Umesh Yadav 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.

Smashing 31 runs in 10 balls at a strike rate of 310 against South Africa in 2019, he set the record for the highest batting strike rate in an innings in Test cricket.

In May 2021, Umesh Yadav  made it in India's 20-man squad for the highly anticipated World Test Championship final clash with New Zealand. He was additionally chosen to play in India's four-match Test series against England, underlining his crucial position in the squad.

Umesh Yadav’s last test appearance came in the ICC World Test Championship against Australia, which proved to be his exclusion from the later series as he ended with dismal figures

Umesh Yadav has played in 57 Test matches so far in his career, taking 170 wickets at an average of 30.96, with a best individual figure of 6/88.

Umesh Yadav T20I 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.

In his nine T20 outings so far, Umesh Yadav has claimed 12 wickets at an average of 23.33, with his best individual performance coming from a 2 for 19. On October 4, 2022, he made his last T20I appearance against South Africa. After that, he lost the selectors' confidence in limited-overs cricket.

Umesh Yadav Captaincy 

As of 2024 Umesh Yadav has not captained the Indian national team or any IPL franchise in his career so far.

Umesh Yadav Under-19 Career 

Yadav joined Vidarbha Gymkhana, a club affiliated with VCA in 2007, having previously played only tennis ball cricket. It was in this Guzder League 'A' Division cricket tournament that Yadav bowled with a leather ball for the first time (VCA). The captain of Vidharbha's Ranji Trophy squad, Pritam Gandhe, encouraged Yadav and made sure he played for Air India in a Twenty20 match.

Yadav made his Vidarbha first-class debut on November 3, 2008, against Madhya Pradesh in the 2008–09 Ranji Trophy. Yadav did not bowl in Madhya Pradesh's second innings. However, in the first, he grabbed four wickets for 72 runs although his team lost by ten wickets. His first wicket was Himalaya Sagar, who was clean bowled. During that season, he played four Ranji matches for Vidarbha, claiming 20 wickets at an average of 14.60, with the best figures being 6/105.

Umesh Yadav Family 

Tilak Yadav and Kishori Yadav are the parents of Umesh. In his younger years, Tilak Yadav, who resided in Pokharbhinda village in the Padrauna district of Uttar Pradesh, was a famous wrestler. He lived in the Valni mine in Khaparkheda, Nagpur district, with his family because of his job at Western Coal Fields. Umesh has two brothers and a sister.

Umesh Yadav Net Worth 

The estimated net worth of Umesh Yadav is around INR 58 crore. His main sources of income include match fees, brand endorsements, commercials, and business ventures. Umesh Yadav was signed by Kolkata Knight Riders prior to the IPL 2023 mini-auction in Kochi. He was retained by the two-time IPL winners for INR 2 crore. With 5.8 crores, GT signed Umesh in the 2024 mini auction.

Umesh Yadav House 

Umesh Yadav resides in a lavish house in Nagpur, Maharashtra.

Umesh Yadav Cars 

The cricketer owns an Audi Q3, which is valued at about INR 40 lakh.