New Delhi: Born on October 25, 1987 Umesh Kumar Tilak Yadav ,formally known as Umesh Yadav is the son of a coal-mine worker. He wanted to be an IPS officer but was not able to make a successful attempt towards this aim.
Thus to be a cricketer was not his childhood dream. It was at the age of nineteen when he started considering a career in cricket and today he is India's ace right-arm fast bowler.