Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni
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During the 90s of Indian Cricket team saw huge transformations. Sourav Ganguly became captain when the match fixing scandal was at peaks. He did very fast clean up in the top order. He introduced 7 batsman policy in India.Yuvraj, Sehwag, Zaheer, Harbhajan are some examples of the players he well backed.

On Thursday, the elite club, which has the likes of Mohammad Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly, hasnew entrant in the form of Yuvraj Singh, his 300th ODI.

It has been a long roller coaster of a journey for the 36-year-old Yuvraj, who made his debut against Kenya in the 2000 edition of the Champions Trophy (then called the KnockOut Trophy). His ticket to the star-studded Indian team was on the back of his all-round performance in that year’s U-19 World Cup, for which he was adjudged the player of the tournament.

From a promising 19-year-old lad to becoming the hero of the 2011 World Cup, from successfully battling cancer to making a stunning comeback into the ODI team.

today Yuvraj Singh was felicitated by the team before the starting of the semifinals and Sourav Ganguly felicitated the man which was a great gesture from the Indian Cricket Team.

Ganguly too took to Twitter to congratulate the man saying how proud he feels now and hope yuvraj get another Worldcup to his bag before he leaves the game.

He wrote. “YUVSTRONG12 just so proud of everything u achieved ..300th game big milestone ..another World Cup to go before u get old”

 

Saika Mazumdar

An engineer girl stung by passion for sports