Umesh Yadav was born on 25th October 1987. He is an Indian cricketer who currently plays for the Vidarbha cricket team in domestic cricket, Middlesex and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League.
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Umesh Yadav was born on 25th October 1987. He is an Indian cricketer who plays for Middlesex and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. However, he has played for Vidarbha at the domestic level since 2008 and he is also the first player from the team to have played in the Test as well. His ODI debut came against Zimbabwe in May 2010 as well.
In 2011 November, he made his Test debut against the West Indies. He was the leading wicket-taker for India and third-highest overall in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup as well. He also holds the record for the highest strike rate in an innings in Test cricket after scoring 31 runs in 10 balls against South Africa in October 2019 as well. Yadav was added as one of India’s pacers for their tour of Australia in 2011–12. He played in all four Tests, claiming 14 wickets at an average of 39.35 as well. In the third Test at the WACA Ground in Perth, he picked up his first fifer in Tests with figures of 5/93 in Australia’s first and only innings as well.
In December 2014, he was added to the 2015 Cricket World Cup. And, he was India’s highest wicket-taker in the tournament with 18 wickets from 8 matches and was also the third-highest wicket-taker in the tournament as well. However, he played for Delhi Daredevils in 2010 and played for them for four seasons as well. He was the fourth-highest wicket-taker in the 2012 IPL with 19 wickets from 17 matches which came at an average of 23.84 as well. However, prior to the 2014 season, Kolkata Knight Riders bought him and played for the side for four seasons before being released ahead of the 2018 IPL auction where Royal Challengers Bangalore bought him. He claimed 20 wickets from 14 matches in 2018 as well. In February 2022, Kolkata Knight Riders bought him in the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League tournament as well.
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Umesh Yadav is married to Tanya Wadhwa, a fashion designer from New Delhi.
The couple has an adorable baby girl, who was born on January 1, 2021.
India speedster Umesh Yadav is married to Tanya Wadhwa, who is also a fashion designer from New Delhi. She was born on 6 August 1989 in New Delhi to a Punjabi Hindu family as well. Tanya was a student of Fashion Designing and later pursued that as a career as well. However, after dating for three years, they decided to get married in 2013 at Hotel Centre Point in Nagpur as well.
