IND vs AUS: Umesh Yadav joins Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan and Javagal Srinath in elite list

With
conditions
ideal
for
reverse
swing,
the
35-year-old
castled
the
stumps
of
Mitchell
Starc
to
achieve
the
milestone.
Earlier,
he
had
trapped
Australia
all-rounder
Cameron
Green
in
front
of
the
stumps
to
get
his
first
wicket
in
the
match.
He
sent
Todd
Murphy’s
off-stump
flying
to
grab
his
third
wicket
and
finish
with
figures
of
3/12
in
the
first
innings.

ICYMI
–
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in
India
for

@y_umesh
????

What
a
ball
that
was
from
Umesh
Yadav
as
he
cleans
up
Mitchell
Starc
to
grab
his
100th
Test
wicket
at
home.

#INDvAUS
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—
BCCI
(@BCCI)

March
2,
2023

Umesh
Yadav
join
Kapil,
Zaheer
and
Srinath
in
elite
list

The
Vidarbha
pacer
has
joined
an
elite
list
of
just
five
pacers
to
take
100
Test
wickets
in
India.
Kapil
Dev,
Javagal
Srinath,
Zaheer
Khan
and
Ishant
Sharma
are
the
other
four
pacers.

• Kapil
  played
  65
  Test
  matches
  in
  India
  and
  picked
  219
  wickets
  at
  an
  average
  of
  26.49

• Javagal
  Srinath
  picked
  132
  wickets
  in
  32
  Test
  matches
  in
  India
  at
  an
  average
  of
  26.61

• Only
  left-arm
  pacer
  in
  the
  list,
  Zaheer
  Khan
  played
  38
  Test
  matches
  in
  India
  and
  picked
  104
  wickets
  at
  an
  average
  of
  35.87

• Ishant
  Sharma
  is
  fourth
  with
  104
  wickets
  in
  42
  Test
  matches
  at
  an
  average
  of
  31.64

• Umesh
  has
  101
  Test
  wickets
  at
  an
  average
  of
  24.53
  in
  India
  to
  his
  name
  after
  playing
  31
  Tests

Umesh
Yadav
Test
record

Overall,
Umesh
has
played
55
Test
matches
and
picked
168
matches
at
an
average
of
29.74.

The
Nagpur-born
star
is
having
a
decent
outing
until
now
in
the
third
Test
of
the
ongoing
Border-Gavaskar
Trophy.
He
blasted
two
sixes
to
take
a
collapsing
India
innings
past
100
and
scored
17
runs
off
13
balls.

He
did
not
feature
in
the
first
two
Tests
as
India
opted
to
go
with
the
combination
of
Mohammed
Shami
and
Mohammed
Siraj.
Shami
made
way
for
Umesh
in
the
Indore
Test.