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yuvraj is certainly a very good ODI and twenty20 player.
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It irks me when people talk about players like Younus Khan and Shoaib Malik being average one-day batsmen when their averages of about 32-33 are up there with Jayasuriya, Jayawardene, Stephen Fleming, etc.
Yuvraj Singh doesnt do justice to his talent he is way better than people think he is, the talent is abundant, big match player as seen in the WC, my favorite Indian player dhoni & Yuvraj two gems of Indian cricket
ODI great he can still become. Remember Michael Beven !
And there are quite a few test greats who failed in ODIs. Remember Justin Langer!
So its not like you can't be called a great if you only do good in ODIs. You need to have the goods to exceed at anything.
Similarly in 10 years from now, there will be a few ^^T20 GREATS^^
They wont be any lesser, no matter how hard Michael Holding cries
According to that logic, Afridi isnt great in your eyes ? Considering he has been equally bad if not worse than Yuvi in Tests.
Afridi is not a great in my eyes. Far from it. It's just my opinion, but success in test cricket is the benchmark for becoming a great.
On topic, Yuvraj's career would always be about "What could have been". He could have easily have scored 10k+ ODI runs by now and a lot many test runs and test match 100s if he had got his priorities right. Thanksfully he has now realised what he has lost all these years and looks to be better focussed on his game.
Yuvi is a key match winner for India, but hes nowhere near a great batsmen.
Hes probably Indias 4th best batsmen in current ODI team after Dhoni, sachin and sehwag.
But these are all great batsman in both tests and odis, so Yuvraj can still be great no?
Age - 29
ODI runs- 8000+ already
Standing among greatest run scorers- 22nd, will possibly get a lot higher in future as half the players ahead are retired already and remaining are about to retire while he has a lot of time left
Strike rate - 3rd best among top 22, only behind Jayasuriya and Gilchrist
MOM awards - 25, 13th in the overall list already. A serious match winner
High points- Engine behind India's two greatest triumphs of the 21st century- The 2007 T20 world cup and 2011 50 over World Cup
But these are all great batsman in both tests and odis, so Yuvraj can still be great no?
If natural justice had anything to do with cricket, Yuvraj Singh would have been in the West Indies. Strapping on his pads, waiting to get out and continue batting in early April vintage. Not sitting in his Delhi home, watching India's bench-strength tackle West Indies, pondering doctors' reports and the most inexplicable months of his life.
Natural justice is on vacation and so India's most emphatic batsman at the World Cup cannot play in the team's first one-day series as world champions. If MS Dhoni's six off Nuwan Kulasekara gave an Indian generation its signature shot, the sight of its buddy next door-turned-field marshal at the other end was most fitting. Yuvraj's twenties - growing pains, coming of age et al - were lived under India's affectionate yet confused public gaze. No wonder that night millions both celebrated and bawled.
The World Cup, though, has been swiftly packed into record books, archival footage and individual memory. The team had no collective celebration, no open-top bus ride through one joyous city (how Kolkata would have welcomed them), and now the steady heartbeat of India's Cup and the event's Player of the Tournament, is on the fringe, in limbo.
Yet Yuvraj's faith stays rooted because of what has just gone past. "No one can take the World Cup away from me," he said, speaking to ESPNcricinfo at length during the IPL. "It is very much in me. It was a big high and the IPL a sort of disappointing low. It was unfortunate that we didn't have much time after the World Cup, but it wasn't that we weren't aware of it. That's just the way a cricketer's life goes these days."
His own cricket has gone through hairpin bends at high speeds over the last year, and Yuvraj should be walking around dizzy. Had he toured the West Indies he would have been the batting leader, with an excellent chance to set himself up for a return to the Test line-up. His current concerns are now around a lung infection that set off bouts of coughing in the last week of May. The juicy rumour that he actually pulled out of the tour because he didn't want to play under Suresh Raina's captaincy has not left him amused either. Yuvraj's only response has been in his syndicated newspaper column, taking personal affront at the idea: "Do I need to tell everyone that I play for India and not for any captain or captaincy? Haven't I played under MS Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir before?" No and yes, of course.
Missing out in the West Indies plagues him because he had done enough to climb out of a professional trough. The World Cup, the Indian team's mental-conditioning expert, Paddy Upton, said, "was set up to be a defining period in Yuvi's career". It was, and he came through in deed and conduct, the perfect bridge between two generations. Captaincy ambitions or not, at this point in Yuvraj's career, he is not interested in sulking on the sidelines because he can see well into the distance.
The thirties lie ahead of him and he has been planning. Yuvraj travelled through the IPL with a personal trainer, Varun Shivdasani, to maintain his fitness for the many series ahead. Before the lung infection knocked him sideways, he felt at his fittest ever and wanted to hold on to it. He discusses the benefits of protein intake on recovery, and his favourite Caesar is neither Julius nor a neighbourhood dog, but the salad. Time can shrink in cricket and Yuvraj is aware of it. "The only thing now is to concentrate on whatever Test cricket is left and just to excel in that," he said. "I'm 29, I still have a lot of years to go, and I think these will be my best years."
Sanjay Manjrekar calls Yuvraj "one of the all-time greats in 50-overs cricket". To many younger than Yuvraj, that is a most desirable benchmark. Straight off, class of 2000 graduate Yuvraj shakes his head. "I am very far away from greatness." His definitions are different. "Tell me," he asks, "who remembers a one-day cricketer today? Why do people remember Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar? Why is Gavaskar on a different stage? It is only because he has 34 Test hundreds. Why do we call Viv Richards, Sir Viv? Great one-day innings, sure, but also 24 Test hundreds. Why will people remember Rahul Dravid? Because of his Test record." ( well said UV)
He could live off his World Cup "Player of the Tournament" tag for the rest of his life, but Yuvraj's sights are elsewhere. He has grown up around India's greatest batting line-up and knows it. "Greatness to me is two things," he says in his lumbering drawl, which often disguises a more contemplative self. "One is a cricketer who is always considered a team player and the other is someone who has scored everywhere in the world."
In Tests, of course. "Veeru to me is a great player. He's a legend because he has scored everywhere, South Africa, Australia, England, Pakistan. Big hundreds - for me that is greatness. (AGAIN)
"VVS Laxman is great - he may not have 20 Test hundreds, he has about 16-17, but his 80s and his 90s, have been at times when India needed him the most. He has been the crunch man for India in Test matches, and a great team man - a great person."
He scales his own ambitions in the Test game against his batting spot. "I'm not looking towards greatness, because, say, like getting to 20-25 Test hundreds, would be a huge target for me as a middle-order batsman. Whatever Test cricket I play, I just want to do well. I have always looked towards winning Test matches for India consistently."
He stops to give proper credit, "Mostly bowlers win Test matches, but if I can contribute towards winning matches for India, like the game in Chennai..." his voice trails off. Chennai was more than three years ago, but he considers himself a stronger and more renewed cricketer now than he was then. "If I could just get to 70-80 Test matches so I don't have any regrets when I retire, ki yaar maine yeh cricket nahin kheli [that I didn't play that kind of cricket]."
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The past year has been both a trial and an education. "After the 2010 IPL, I lost it a bit because people started accusing me of throwing matches, which was really disturbing. I had put on, like, three to four kilos and people were talking like I had put on 300 kilos."
The scales will prove Yuvraj's lightness but he has always carried it in his manner. Behind the sunglasses and the game face, it just doesn't show much. He may not win elocution contests, but communicate he can, to all kinds of people, across every kind of issue. If a cause or a comrade has to be defended, Yvuraj rolls up metaphorical sleeves and wades in. If an uncomfortable question has to be answered, he will raise an eyebrow, frown and launch his counter. He can both engage with and tolerate an omnipresent media, ticking them off or joshing with them as needed. He was astonished when the scrum gave him a round of applause after the World Cup quarter-final. "This is a special moment for me, guys." After the final, he walked into the media room shouting, "Congratulations to all of you" in Hindi and shaking hands.
When asked where he thinks he can go with his previously uncelebrated slow-slow bowling skill, he grins. "Not far," he says and bursts into deep-throated laughter. "Trust me." In the World Cup, it did enough. Yuvraj ended up India's No. 2 wicket-taker, after Zaheer Khan, having taken advice from selector and former India legspinner Narendra Hirwani.
As the Cup went into boilover mode, in the run-up to the semi-final, one afternoon he talked life with Shoaib Akhtar over lunch in Mohali. The Pakistani told him that the bad times could sometimes actually be good. "Shoaib said you remember the good times and you want them back, so you work harder. You try and become a better person to get those times back... that's the kind of year I'd had." What it left behind surprised him. "I had become mentally very strong. I became very patient... I knew I wasn't going to barge into the Test side, score a triple-hundred or a double-hundred. I'm not going to score 150 in one-day cricket... A lot of people had stopped believing in me, but I had belief in myself."
It is why the World Cup became, as Upton said, his defining moment, when he endured an off-field mental and physical churn: sleepless nights, throwing up. Zaheer Khan introduced him to the benefits of iPad gaming. It was movies in hotel rooms, headphones on in public, all the while having people say to the team, "jeetoge, jeetna hai, jeetna hai India ko" [you will win, you have to win, India has to win]. What was left unsaid was something else. "'If you don't win we will put up your photos, set it on fire and throw shoes at it.' No one said it but at the back of the mind sometimes it sounded like that," he laughs. It was not easy.
On the field Yuvraj radiated assurance, dead sure even after defeat in Nagpur that he would take the team to the final. For a year he had dreamt of hitting the winning runs against Australia in the final, the K'Naan song Wavin' Flag playing in his head. It is why he celebrated like he did in Motera, sliding to his knees and roaring like a beast uncaged. It was Australia, the flags were waving, and while it wasn't the World Cup final, the game changed India's stride. "I had wanted to win that match desperately." Bollywood director Farhan Akhtar told Yuvraj that his face that night reminded him of a celebrating Muhammad Ali. Probably from that 1965 picture, standing over Sonny Liston.
Yuvraj said he had played the Cup for Sachin Tendulkar, but the trophy became a son's gift to his father. Yograj Singh, the other Chandigarh allrounder left behind in Kapil Dev's wake, looked at pictures of 1983 and "always wished he had been there". After the final, when Yograj spoke to his son, he said, "I am proud to have a son like you. You have given me everything."
Yet it is all suddenly cotton-woolled, because India are now the wicket everyone wants. Over the next eight months they must travel far and boldly to stay right where they are - Test No. 1 and one-day leaders in all but the rankings. "There's more responsibility on us to maintain that. If we can do consistently in the West Indies and England, then there's no reason we can't do well in Australia. We're playing good cricket. I'm sure we have what it takes to get to the next level."
In the last five years, series have been won in the West Indies and England, but Australia remains the holy grail, the monkey on the back, the so-far invincible opposition.
Yuvraj Singh was the man who thought about and brought about an end to Australia's 12-year unbeaten World Cup run. With that, his one-day game scaled a dizzy peak. All he sees from there now is an even higher summit.
Sharda Ugra is senior editor at ESPNcricinfo
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so do you think that only you watch cricket and hence showing scorecards of some matches in the sub-continent.
Can you tell me his scores in the series against Australia in 2008 ?
so do you think that only you watch cricket and hence showing scorecards of some matches in the sub-continent.
Can you tell me his scores in the series against Australia in 2008 ?
Certainly making the drop catch count. Imagine had he gone then I think with Dhoni too in horrible form we might have conceded England a lead. Just the luck he needed.
Currently stands at 22nd position in list of top run getters in ODIS with just over 8000 runs.
Averaging respectable 37.62 but more importantly out of 21 people ahead of him in the list only 2 are having a better strike rate. Gilchrist and Jayasuriya. He scores at an SR of 88.
Its time people start rating this guy seriously, he has been one of the best ODI batsmen of the decade and at the end of his career will be one of the best ever most probably.
He will be over taking people like Gibbs, Waugh, Haynes, Attapattu, Chanderpaul, Anwar, De Silva, Azharudin, Yousuf, Gilchrist, Lara, Dravid and probably more in future and will be among 5 greatest run scorers on ODIs when he retires or even higher
2011 world cup man of the tournament dropped from ODI team
I am in mood to beat some![]()
Why does he keep getting sick , UV needs some shittar parade
Spending too much time with women is he again
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Yuvraj Singh, the India allrounder, had asked the BCCI not to consider him for selection for the ODI series against West Indies because he has been recovering from what his family has called an "illness that threatened his career," caused by an "abnormal tumour" on his lung.
According to a statement released by his mother, Shabnam Singh, Yuvraj had been troubled by bouts of coughing and vomitting during the 2011 World Cup but had ignored the problem during the tournament, "assuming it was due to stress."
When the problem persisted after the World Cup, Yuvraj sought medical advice and tests revealed "a golf-ball sized" growth on his left lung, the statement said. Initial reports had suggested that Yuvraj "had what in medical terms is called an abnormal tumor called lymphoma. The danger was, we were told, that it could be malignant."
Early medical treatment and therapy led to Yuvraj feeling better than he did during the World Cup and he "was eager to resume his India duties." However, after returning from the tour of England due to a finger injury sustained during the Nottingham Test, Yuvraj went through several rounds of tests, scans and a recent biopsy in order to ascertain the exact nature of the tumour. "Further reports have indicated that the tumour is non-malignant and non-threatening and can be treated through proper medication and therapy. In medical terms, Yuvraj is now in a much better state and on his way to a full recovery."
Yuvraj had informed the BCCI president N Srinivasan of the findings and wanted to regain his fitness. It was why he had "sought some more time ... and asked not to be considered for selection in the one-dayers versus West Indies."
In the statement Yuvraj's mother said he "did not want to rush things, wants to be 100% fit before resuming his cricket for India and has started working hard on both his fitness and his cricket. He is already preparing himself to play the one-day series in Australia."
Yuvraj was not included in the Test squad for the tour of Australia.
Yuvraj Singh battling non-malignant tumour
http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/news/item/181481-yuvraj-singh-battling-non-malignant-tumour
Nothing wrong with that!!
People die cuz of these tumors lol
Nothing to laugh at