3rd Test: Umesh Yadav emulates Sachin Tendulkar in 10-ball 31 vs SA
Cricket | October 20, 2019 18:47 ISTComing to bat at No.9, Umesh scored 31 runs in 10 balls laced with five sixes.
Coming to bat at No.9, Umesh scored 31 runs in 10 balls laced with five sixes.
Play was called off early yet again after bad light forced the player's to go off the field as South Africa ended day two on 9/2, trailing India by 488 runs.
Umesh slammed debutant George Linde to five humongous maximums in his 31-run knock off just 10 balls.
Umesh savoured a six-wicket match-haul in India's big win in the second Test but he knows that it's not a great position to be the fourth choice pacer in the side when Jasprit Bumrah is available.
Umesh Yadav picked up 6 wickets in the second Test against South Africa at the MCA Stadium in Pune.
After winning the toss, India rode skipper's Virat Kohli double century, opener Mayank Agarwal's century and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja's 91 to amass a mammoth 601/5d on board and later the hosts bowlers wrapped up both innings of South Africa in around two days.
Opener Dean Elgar (48) was the top-scorer for the visitors while pacer Umesh Yadav (3/22) and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja (3/52) took three wickets apiece for India.
Skipper Virat Kohli completed his seventh double hundred in Test cricket, remaining unbeaten on 254 while Ravindra Jadeja (91) missed out on his second hundred by nine runs.
Skipper Virat Kohli completed his seventh double hundred in Test cricket, remaining unbeaten on 254 while Ravindra Jadeja (91) missed out on his second hundred by nine runs.
Jasprit Bumrah will miss the Test series against South Africa due to a stress fracture and he was replaced in the squad by Umesh Yadav.
Jasprit Bumrah's body has finally answered and he has been ruled out of the Test series against South Africa due to a minor stress fracture.
Jasprit Bumrah has sustained a minor stress fracture in his lower back and has been ruled out of the entire Gandhi-Mandela Trophy against South Africa.
Umesh hasn't got as much of an opportunity to play as he would have hoped for because of the consistency found by Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
With Shreyas Iyer and Navdeep Saini joining the senior team in the US for the T20s against West Indies, Test specialists like opener Agarwal and speedster Yadav, who are already in the Caribbean, will play the second four-day game in their absence.
Umesh, who is not in India's World Cup team, said nothing is going right for him and the piling mental pressure has affected on his accuracy and rhythm in bowling.
The 31-year-old fast bowler played his last Test for India against Australia in December while he dawned the national ODI jersey in October. He was also overlooked for the World Cup squad and even failed to make it in the list of standby players.
Rabada said that his parents, as young Black Africans, had their share of struggles while they tried to settle down in their professional lives but ensured that he got the best of everything.
De Kock said it will be a big game for MI against RCB and they need a win to get going.
Umesh believes that he fits the bill as experience will be an important factor taken into consideration when the selectors pick the WC squad.
KL Rahul returned to the Indian side with a 36-ball 50 but the middle-order and Umesh Yadav failed to grab their chances as India went down by 3 wickets in the first T20I against Australia at Vizag.
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