Umesh Yadav got 6 wickets for 88 runs on day two of the second test match against West Indies at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday.
This is the best figures for an Indian pace bowler at home since Javagal Srinath’s 6 for 45 against New Zealand at Mohali in way back in 1999.
India took 6.4 overs to claim the last three West Indies wickets on Saturday bowling the visitors out for 311 in Hyderabad.
Umesh Yadav, who had picked three wickets on day one, cleaned up the tail in no time on Saturday morning and proceeded to take the remaining three wickets as West Indies resumed at 295/7.
Since 1999, there have been only nine instances where an Indian pacer picked 5 of more wickets in India in a Test innings – Zaheer Khan had done it thrice while Srinath, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Ishant Sharma, S Sreensath, Mohammad Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have done it once each.
Umesh’s 6/88 is also the first six-wicket haul by an Indian pacer at home since Srinath’s effort in 1999.
This is Umesh’s best bowling figures in an innings surpassing his 5/93 in Australia in 2012. It has taken him 68 consecutive innings to register another five or more wickets haul in a Test innings, making him the bowler with most consecutive innings between two five-fers for India.