Umesh Yadav, Imran Khan and Wasim Akram
Umesh Yadav Imran Khan Wasim Akram IND vs AUS Indore Test: In the third match of the India vs Australia series, Team India’s batting may have flopped in the first innings of the match, but in the meantime Umesh Yadav has emerged as the new star. When batsmen like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Shubman Gill were craving for one run, at the same time Umesh Yadav came to the crease and hit two sky sixes one by one and breathed life into the match. After this, when the Indian team was struggling for wickets on the second day of the match, they took two consecutive wickets to put Australia on the backfoot and Australia’s first innings ended in no time. Meanwhile, Umesh Yadav not only completed 100 Test wickets in his home country i.e. India, but also left behind Imran Khan and Wasim Akram, who were counted among the legendary bowlers of Pakistan.
Umesh Yadav ended Australia’s innings by taking three wickets.
Umesh Yadav scored a blistering 17 off the first 13 balls of the Indore Test. During this, two sixes and a four came from his bat. The highlight of Umesh Yadav’s innings was that his strike rate was more than 130, which was not seen by any other Indian batsman in the first innings. On the first day when Umesh Yadav’s bowling came, he could not do any great feat. All the four wickets that fell on the first day were taken by Ravindra Jadeja. After this, when the Indian team, playing under pressure, took the field on the second day, not a single wicket fell in the first hour. This seemed to increase the crisis of the Indian team, but as soon as the second hour started and Ravichandran Ashwin got the first wicket, after that Umesh Yadav started his work. Umesh Yadav bowled only five overs and took three wickets for 12 runs. Umesh Yadav went on uprooting the Australian batsmen one after the other and the entire team returned to the pavilion within a few minutes. The Australia team, which was once seen sitting on the driving seat, lost six wickets in 11 runs and 24 balls and Umesh Yadav played the biggest role in that.
Umesh Yadav’s third best strike rate in Asia
Meanwhile, Umesh Yadav has left behind Imran Khan and Wasim Akram, the former captain of the Pakistani cricket team. Now you must be thinking what is this record. Let us tell you. In fact, in terms of bowling with the best strike rate in Asia, Pakistan’s Waqar Younis is at number one. His strike rate is 38.2, while Shoaib Akhtar is at number two, his strike rate is 44.5. After this, now the number has come of Umesh Yadav. He scores runs at a strike rate of 47.5. On the other hand, talking about Imran Khan, his strike rate is more than 48 and Wasim Akram’s is more than 50. Keep in mind that here we are talking about the fast bowlers of Asia and only those players have been included, who have taken more than 100 wickets so far. Umesh Yadav was not given a chance in the first two matches of this series. Mohammed Shami was playing the first two matches, he bowled well, but in the third match Mohammed Shami was rested, after that Umesh Yadav’s entry is in India’s playing eleven. Earlier, he was playing in the two-match series against Bangladesh which was played in December and also bowled brilliantly. It has to be seen whether Umesh Yadav is able to show amazing performance in the second innings of this match as well.
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