Rahul Tiwari
khelja|03-11-2024
Umesh Yadav: Umesh Yadav was known for his fast bowling. He has helped Team India win many matches with his bowling. Even good batsmen would succumb to his reverse swing bowling. And he also used to come from the bottom and score important runs with the bat.
In this article, we will talk about one such innings of Umesh Yadav when Umesh Yadav created a stir with his batting in Ranji Trophy.
Umesh Yadav had scored a century in this match. Due to which his team was successful in winning this match. Aditya Shanver scored a brilliant centuryActually, this match was played in Ranji Trophy between Vidarbha and Odisha in the year 2015. In which Vidarbha team won the toss and decided to bat first. Vidarbha's opening batsmen gave a good start to the team and Aditya Shanaver scored a brilliant century. However, after this the middle order of Vidarbha fell apart like a pack of cards.
Umesh Yadav showed in this innings why he is considered such a dangerous tailender batsman.
Vidarbha team had scored only 293 runs after losing 8 wickets. After that, Umesh Yadav along with Akshay Wakhare took the ninth wicket and took the team near 400 runs.Umesh stayed here and along with Ravikumar, he not only brought the team's score to a more respectable position but also completed his century. Vidarbha team was all out for 467 runs but Umesh Yadav remained unbeaten after scoring 128 runs. Umesh hit 7 fours and 7 sixes in his innings.
Apart from Govind Poddar, no batsman could run from Odisha team. He remained stuck at one end and completed his century. Due to which Odisha team was successful in scoring 274 runs. However, even after Govind's century, Odisha could not save the follow on. Govind played a brilliant inning of 148 unbeaten runs in which he hit 20 fours and 1 six.
For Vidarbha, Akshay Wakhare took maximum 4 wickets. Odisha team put up a fight in the second innings. The result of which was that this match went out of Vidarbha's bag and ended in a draw. Anurag Sarangi scored 92 runs in the second innings for Odisha.
