The luck of Umesh Yadav, who remained unsold in the mega auction of IPL 2025, seems to be shining. This franchise has placed a big bet on this dashing fast bowler. He can soon become a part of the team.

Umesh Yadav: Team India's fast bowler Umesh Yadav remained unsold in the mega auction of IPL 2025. No franchise had bid on this dashing player. But now this player can get entry in IPL 2025. His old team is considering giving Umesh Yadav another chance, after which he seems to be returning to the IPL. Umesh Yadav has been out of Team India for a long time, while his performance is also continuously declining, which is why no franchise had taken a bet on him in this mega auction.

Can be included in this team

Umesh Yadav, who entered the auction at a base price of 2 crores, was not bought by anyone, but he can now join his old team Royal Challengers Bangalore. Actually, RCB bought Australian fast bowler Josh Hazlewood for 12.5 crores in the mega auction, but he got injured even before the season started. He was struggling with a hip problem in the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, while before that he had a strain in the calf and hip, after which it seems very difficult for him to be fully fit before IPL 2025, after which he can be replaced by Umesh Yadav.

Has been a part of RCB

Umesh Yadav has been a part of RCB before as well. Umesh was a part of RCB from 2018 to 2020/21, but was released due to poor performance. After this, he was included in the Kolkata Knight Riders squad in 2022 and 2023, but here too his performance remained a matter of concern. While in 2024 he was a part of Gujarat Titans. Before the mega auction of IPL 2025, Gujarat also left him and no one bet on him in the mega auction. However, after Hazelwood got injured, he seems to be returning to RCB once again.

Umesh's performance for RCB

In 2018, Umesh Yadav was seen playing in RCB jersey for the first time. Then he played all 14 matches for this team, in which he took 20 wickets and his economy was also only 7.86. After this, in 2019, he got a chance to play 11 matches for RCB, in which he took only 8 wickets and his economy was also 9.80. Whereas in the 2020/21 season, he got a chance to play only 2 matches, but during this time he could not take a single wicket and also conceded runs at an economy of 11.85, due to which he was released.

T20 career of Umesh Yadav

Umesh Yadav's T20 career has been very impressive. This star bowler has taken 202 wickets in 194 T20 matches and during this his economy was also 8.34. While he has also played 9 T20I matches for India, in which he has 12 wickets to his name. Umesh Yadav played the last T20 match for India against South Africa in the year 2022, after which he was dropped from the team and he has not been able to return since then.