Umesh Yadav: I think I should treat Wriddhiman Saha
Updated On: 14 October, 2019 07:26 AM IST | Pune | PTI
Pacer Umesh Yadav credits Wriddhiman for his brilliant work behind the stumps in India's innings victory over Proteas

India's Wriddhiman Saha celebrates after taking a catch to dismiss SA's Theunis de Bruyn
Pune: Paceman Umesh Yadav said he owed Wriddhiman Saha a "treat" since the wicketkeeper plucked catches out of thin air when his leg-side deliveries could have gone to the boundary line, in the second Test. Umesh returned figures of 3 for 22 in South Africa’s second innings to help India register an innings and 137-run win in the second Test yesterday. And the pacer admitted that the credit for his first two wickets entirely goes to Saha for his brilliant display behinds the stumps.
"I think I should treat him for those wickets down leg-side and that first catch, and I think those two wickets are Wriddhibhai’s wickets," Umesh said after the match. Saha’s superb ‘keeping skills once again stole the show. On the third morning, during South African first innings, Theunis de Bruyn (8) tried playing an expansive cover drive off Umesh but a diving Saha held a sensational catch in front of first slip. And on the fourth day again, Saha pulled off two stunners down the leg-side off Umesh in South Africa’s second innings to dismiss De Bruyn and Vernon Philander.


