Yuvi and focus? Utter bullshit. Yuvi is an enigma. A person who doesn't know what he will do next minute, how will his team mates or opposition know. Sign of a moody person. Another Salim Durani in the making.
I think he likes to be needled. Only yesterday Dilip Vengsarkar said that Yuvi has no focus and nobody knows Yuvi better as a cricketer than him. When Yuvi was 15, he was sent to Mumbai by his father Yograj Singh to practice at the Elf-Vengsarkar cricket academy.
What power was he generating. Hitting over the huge palm trees on the northern side of the Oval Maidaan the ball would land on the road , a good 100 yeard hit. Even big hitter Kambli couldn't hit the ball that high and long.
Everytime Yuvi fails either we talk about his technique or his off the field activities. And when he scores like he did at Rajkot, we compare him with Garry Sobers. Now did anyone bother to know that Sobers too enjoyed his off the field activities.
The similiarity between Sobers and Yuvi is that apart from being the left handers, their mood. When in mood Sobers loved tarnishing the reputation of the international bowlers. Yuvi loves to do that too. Let's allow him to do what he wants.
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You are right about him being an enigma, a real rare talent. But the real question is -Is he doing all he can to go down in history as an all time great?
Perhaps his lifestyle is coming in the way of that. The generations of Sobers and Yuvraj are very different. The game is a lot more demanding now than it was then.
Demanding in terms of fitness and we are already seeing signs of his fitness dropping. He no longer fields in point where he has take some mind blowing catches
Moody players don't bother about the history. If they bother about the history, they won't perform the way they are doing.
As far as life style is concerned, Sobers enjoyed his life by his admission than his contemporaries.
Mind you, the game was quite demanding in 60s too. Perhaps travelling was less but intensity was much more than compared to what we see now.
Makarand
You just saw the 2nd coming of Yuvraj Singh during India's famous run chase at Chepauk, yesterday.The prodigal son returns.
DocDee
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