‘MS Dhoni and Main Tha …’: Yuvraj Singh almost missed the 2011 World Cup; East-India head coach Gary Kirsten opens. Cricket news
Former India head coach Gary Kirsten has revealed that Yuvraj Singh almost missed the 2011 World Cup cricket team.The selection of Yuvraj Singh, who later became players of the tournament in the 2011 ODI World Cup, was not a direct decision for national selectors.
Kirsten and the then captain MS Dhoni played an important role to include Yuvraj in the team.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!“Thank you, we chose him because it was flipping closely. It was. It was not a slam-dunk selection. The selectors argued around 15 players. I was very keen in the team as Dhoni was very keen on, because he brought into the group and ended to see the World Cup, he ended,” Kirsten said.
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“I was always very fond of Yuvraj. We had such a great relationship where, sometimes he used to get me out of hell, but I just loved him. He was good. I just wanted him to scoring all the time because I would see him the bat, it’s amazing to see it.Paddy Upton, coach of mental conditioning and strategic leadership, worked extensively with Yuvraj to prepare him for the tournament, which was before his fight with cancer.He said, “Paddy did a lot of work with Yuvi to get ready for that World Cup. Yuvi took some important decisions around himself preparing himself and getting ready for the World Cup,” he said.After experiencing a quiet period in 2010, Yuvraj gave an outstanding performance in the World Cup, scoring 362 runs to over 86 and took 15 wickets.His remarkable achievements included a century against the West Indies in Chennai and a joint five wickets and half -centuries against Ireland.Yuvraj’s important half -century in Ahmedabad helped to eliminate defending champions Australia in the quarter -finals.He continued his all -round performance by taking two wickets in each knockout game.The tournament concluded with Yuvraj at the end of the non-strayer as Dhoni won six against Sri Lanka in the final in Mumbai.
