Perhaps, Yuvraj Singh is one of those few cricketers, who got every right to get a retiring game right from the ground. But, unfortunately, it wasn’t the case with the Indian team, as he lost a bit of fitness after his return to the game from Cancer. Meanwhile, Kapil Dev wishes Yuvraj Singh to have a farewell game.
He is among the Indian greats who did not get a farewell game after contemporaries Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Gautam Gambhir. Meanwhile, Kapil Dev believes that Yuvraj Singh is one of the few players, who deserve a farewell game.
A remarkable cricketing career came to an end when Yuvraj Singh brought the curtain down on his international career on Monday. There were many ups and downs during his international career which spanned 17 years. Yuvraj took 148 international wickets and scored 11,778 runs in 404 matches in which he represented India.
The celebrated cricketer and one of the biggest match-winners the country has ever produced ended a career which spanned 19 years after he made his debut in the ICC KnockOut Trophy in Kenya.
Yuvraj Singh will be my first name on all-time XI – Kapil Dev
World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev on Wednesday said a player of Yuvraj Singh‘s stature should have got a farewell from the ground and the stylish southpaw will command a place in his all-time XI as and when he comes up with it.
“Yuvraj will be in my all-time eleven whenever I sit down to make my team. I would love to see a player like him get the farewell from the ground than he saying ‘I am retired’,” said Kapil during an event.
“The way he played his cricket. The way he is looked up to, what he has gone through in his life (battling cancer). I wish him even better than what he achieved on the cricket field,” said the legendary allrounder.