Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Arun
The guy while having tea besides Dhaka's team hotel's swimming pool, nicknamed 'Maharaj' was surrounded by local people for autographs and taking snaps a while ago.
Yuvraj Singh is Sourav Ganguly's another station's name afterall.When he was the captain, Yuvraj flourished under him only.There was a time when many including Uttaranchal's selectors voted against the Punjab lad, Yuvraj. They used to say, he's very careless, doesn't abide by rules, no dedication towards cricket, plays a couple of matches and then goes for parties. He can't be taken and captain Sourav went against the entire selection committee and said, i don't know anything, i want yuvraj singh otherwise, here u go, i'm leaving this meeting and won't sign on ur papers. That fav yuvi was having a tough time. Has not been getting runs in Tests and One-Days. Got chucked out of both formats and was already having feeble chances with T20 format too that would also have extinguished forever, if he did not get runs against Australia on Sunday.
Having seen Yuvi among runs finally made ecstatic Dada to reach out to Yuvi near the swimming pool, where he was clad in a towel it was nostalgic to see the two exchange words and tapping each other's backs in admiration
Another lad was just about to dive into the pool.Upon seeing Dada, Suresh Raina rushed to him to discuss about batting.literally, took the 'strike' away from Yuvi. After not getting selected in Asia Cup, Raina had consulted Dada over the phone. He said that he will meet Dada in Kolkata after the T20 world cup to do a special class with him. But, even during the world cup, whenever he's getting a chance, he's discussing with Dada.
Now Over to DADA,
How did you like Yuvraj's batting?
Loved it, planned his innings well, started off slowly and slogged so well in the end.
At one point, captain Sourav had to face criticisms like, pick Sourav and get Yuvraj free.Such was Sourav's support for Yuvi, that even if he didn't score for 2-3 consecutive matches, he wouldn't be dropped.
What was it about Yuvi, that Sourav had such faith on him?
I always felt, Yuvi has special talent,he was a match winner.he has the ability to turn any match around and win it by himself and he has done so in several occasions.he further said, yuvi and dhoni are very strong match-winners in the middle order, once these two set together in, indian batting would flourish
BY : Sumit Ghosh for E-Bela
Courtesy : E-Bela
Translated By : Shibdas Roy
Edited By : Arun Raghavan
