India v Pakistan: 5 Battles to watch out for at Edgbaston

#3 Umesh Yadav V Ahmed Shehzad and Azhar Ali

After a memorable home Test season, Umesh Yadav is a different bowler. He has a spring in his strides and has matured as a bowler a lot in the last 8 months. He will bowl with the new ball and has his work cut out against Ahmad Shehzad and Azhar Ali. Both Shehzad and Azhar have tight techniques and can counter the moving ball. But Umesh is a skiddy customer who can hurry the batsmen.

Umesh, Shehzad and Azhar have played 2 India-Pakistan clashes in the ODI arena. While Shehzad has managed to get two scores of 40 plus, Azhar has made just 9 runs from 2 innings. Umesh has picked 2 wickets at a very decent economy rate of 4.74. Umesh and Azhar have never been head-to-head but Shehzad has faced the pace bowler in both sides World Cup encounter at Adelaide in 2015.

Umesh had a tight lid over Shehzad as the latter could muster just 4 runs in 15 balls and also lost his wicket to the fast bowler. It will be interesting to see how Umesh goes about his business against two technically sound batsmen on Sunday.