Yuvraj Singh has made his comeback in the Indian side after fighting for his life. When we first saw him, he was looking a little out of form, but then the big hits he has always been well known for were seen again. One fact that we just cannot ignore that he is an essential part of the Indian cricket team. His batting is great, he can chip in with his bowling and puts his heart into fielding as well. He is one of India’s rare all-rounders who play extremely well. When India had won the World Cup in 1983, Kapil Dev had really helped with his all-round performance. South Africa is a formidable team indeed with the presence of Jacques Kallis, who is the picture perfect all-rounder. Australia have Shane Watson, an all-rounder who is much felicitated for his contribution to Australian Cricket. Does an all-rounder make the difference?
n both the World Cups that India has won in recent times, the T20 World Cup in 2007 and the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011, Yuvraj Singh has played a key role. In the T20 world cup, he hit six sixes in an over which helped India carve their name on the T20 trophy. In the 2011 World Cup last year, apart from his valuable batting effort, he took several wickets as well which caused him to be named the man of the tournament.
Every cricketer has rough and bad times, just as Yuvraj Singh has had, but it is the ability of the batsman to recover from these bad patches that make him truly great. Chemotherapy, used as a cure for cancer, destroys many body cells. The effects of this practice can last for up to 7 years! Yuvraj Singh has come back to international cricket after 9 months. This shows his will to play for the Indian team.
A batsman cannot be judged by how many centuries or fifties he has scored, but rather how useful his runs have been and the pace at which he has scored them. If Rohit Sharma had managed to score a boundary for India in the T20 against New Zealand, it probably would have made up for his past disappointments. However, what has happened has happened. The question that I ask you is that whether Yuvraj Singh will be the key to India’s success in the upcoming T20 CWC?
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