Personal Information

Full NameUmeshkumar Tilak Yadav
BornOctober 25, 1987 Nagpur, Maharashtra
Age35 Years, 10 Months, 28 Days
National SideIndia
Batting StyleRight Handed
BowlingRight-arm fast
SportCricket

Ranking

TestODIT20
Batting---
Bowling29--

Man of the Match

TestODIT20World CupCL
10000

Career Information

Teams PlayedIndia, Central Zone, India A, India B, India Blue, Indian Board Presidents XI, India Red, Rest of India, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi Capitals, Middlesex, Vidarbha, Indians
Career Span

Umeshkumar Tilak Yadav Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

MIN/ORHS100s50s4s6sAVGS/RCTSTDucksR/O
Test
56662745431 v SA00412411.6452.79190162
ODI
7524147918* v NZ00817.9058.95220120
World Cup
81000 v AUS00000.000.008010
T20I
9212220* v SA002022.00104.763000
CL
51111* v LIO0000-50.00--00
IPL
133452717724* v RR001589.83105.35340142

Bowling Performance

IOMRWBest3s5sAVGE/RS/RMtc
Test
1101456.323951321686/88 v WI24330.543.5252.0156
ODI
735932335651064/31 v BAN14033.636.0133.5673
World Cup
864.25321184/31 v BAN3017.834.9821.448
T20I
9300280122/19 v IRE0023.339.3315.009
CL
416110042/13 v KKR0025.006.2524.004
IPL
132468.2539181354/23 v PBKS16029.028.3620.81132

Umeshkumar Tilak Yadav Profile

Who doesn't love a story where the hero comes from a humble background, grind himself in the dirt and rise from it? Well, Umesh Yadav has a Bollywood-style fairy tale story himself. Hailing from Nagpur, Yadav's father was a coal mine worker. At one stage, Umesh wanted to become a policeman to help out his family but it didn't work out. Then, he held cricket's hand at the age of 19 and things changed forever.


Yadav went to the non-glamourous Vidarbha team to start his journey and started his grind. Gifted with a well-built body, swift, crisp action and natural fast bowling speed, Umesh rose through the ranks. He made his Ranji debut for Vidarbha in 2008, took a 4-fer and finished the season claiming 20 wickets at 14.60.


Just after two years in the domestic circuit, the Indian selectors took notice of his 140 speed, a rare thing for an Indian bowler, and selected him in the ODI squad for Zimbabwe's tour in 2010. He attracted eyeballs with his pace and Delhi got him for the 2010 season of the Indian T20 League. Soon he made his Test debut as well, in 2011, against Windies at home. The MS Dhoni-led team took him along to Australia in the same year. They lost the Test series but Umesh's bowling impressed everyone. He picked 14 wickets in an otherwise hapless series and proved to be a ray of light through the darkness for the depleted Indian pace bowling unit.


Just when things started to look bright, Yadav got injured in 2012. The selectors gave him time to recover as he was out of the international fold for over a year. Then, he returned and was a part of the ICC Champions Trophy-winning squad in 2013. He was a delight to watch in England as he used the swing and pacy conditions to a great effect but the bouts of inconsistency along with it didn't help his case for a permanent spot in the playing XI.


He is a rhythm bowler, lethal when he finds it and below ordinary when it gets disrupted. Till date, his performance in Australia and New Zealand during the 2015 edition of the World Cup has been his best as he extracted pace and bounce off the Aussie tracks, and though India failed to retain their title, Umesh ended the tour as India's best bowler with 18 wickets.


After a couple of years in the capital city, Kolkata swooped him for the 7th edition of the Indian T20 League. He joined the ranks with Pat Cummins, Morne Morkel and Jacques Kallis under the leadership of Gautam Gambhir. In the 2018 auction, the Bangalore-based franchise, hand-picked him and gave him the reigns of their bowling department.