Jayant Yadav

Jayant Yadav

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Jayant Yadav Profile

  • Name:
  • Jayant Yadav
  • Born:
  • January 22, 1990
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Delhi
  • Mother:
  • Lakshmi

Jayant Yadav Biography

Jayant Yadav is a budding young cricketer associated with national team. He serves as an all-rounder for his team, who bats right-handed, and bowls right-arm off break. He joined national team in the year 2016, and since then has been a regular player. He was also associated with Delhi Daredevils in 2015 for IPL matches. He marked his test debut on 17 November 2016 v England and played his single ODI on 29 October 2016 v New Zealand. He played 3 test matches for team India, and completed 45 FC matches in domestic cricket. Jayant is the nephew of Yogendra Yadav, famous politician and psephologist.

 

Jayant Yadav hails from Delhi. He was born on 22 January 1990. He lost his mother Lakshmi in a plane crash, when he was very young and later he was brought up by Jyoti Yadav. She nurtured Jayant’s Yadav and helped him in every means to fulfill his dreams to play cricket for team India. He joined Indian team in September 2016, and played for India against New Zealand at Visakhapatnam, and claimed a wicket for the debut match. He replaced Hardik Pandya in the playing XI. Three weeks later, he made his Test debut for India against England at the same venue. Prior to his entry in national team, he was fully engaged in first class matches, and took 117 wickets in total.

 

A specialist bowler for the team, he also helps his team as a batsman occasionally. Though he has played only three test matches for team India, he owns some outstanding innings. He scored 221 runs in three matches, which include one test century and two half-centuries. He is the first batsman for India to score a century after coming at number 9, when he scored 104 at this position. He also made a record partnership with Virat Kohli, putting up 241 runs for 8th wicket - the second best in the world.

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Updated: April 06, 2018

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