Test cricket remains priority for Umesh Yadav

Umesh Yadav played all but one of India's 13-Test home season of 2016-17. By March, he was arguably India's most improved performer in the five-day format, an integral part to their rise to the top of the Test rankings. The taxing home stretch followed by a Champions Trophy campaign and an ODI series in Windies took a toll as Umesh mostly bowled within himself in the Sri Lanka Tests.

The selectors subsequently rested him (and Shami) for the limited-overs leg of the Sri Lanka series before bringing them back for the home series against Australia. Umesh's returned to the playing XI only in the