Yuvraj Singhs brilliance as a batsman, bowler and fielder
Yuvraj Singh is one player who has a unique knack of doing anything with a cricket ball. Yuvraj Singh can be elegant and classical with the bat and yet be destructive and with the ball he can stop the flow of runs or take hat tricks with vicious spin. If he is not batting or bowling his brilliant fielding is a joy to watch. Let us have a deeper look at one of the greatest gifts of the game:-
Caressing the ball to the boundary while batting:- Yuvraj Singh has got this uncanny knack of playing effortless strokes. Yuvraj Singh has this tendency to push or punch the ball lazily and while doing so he actually gives the impression that he is looking to casually one walk through a single. This is the impression to gives to the bowler, fielders and millions of viewers. The beauty of Yuvraj's strokes lies in the fact that the actually ball picks up pace midway on its route before speeding to the boundary. Many classy batsman have played over years but none of them have this unique ability.
Clouting bowlers for huge sixes:- If Yuvraj Singh is not as his classical best caressing deliveries to the boundary, then it is a cause of even more concern to the bowlers and beautiful to the eye if you are one of those fans among millions. Yuvraj Singh can clout huge sixes at will and still look graceful. Those six sixes against Sturart Braod in the inaugral T20 World Cup is an indication of an wondeful amalgam of power and grace rarely seen in world cricket..
Art of Bowling Economically, occasionally spinning deliveries and picking up hat tricks:- It is only in the last couple of years or so that Yuvraj Singh has been bowling regularly for India. Earlier Yuvraj Singh was a cause of concern for bowlers in international cricket with his destructive batting, but now with him bowling more often in matches, he has become a cause of concern for batsman too. Yuvraj takes of the pace of the ball which makes runs hard to come for batsman and if that is not enough on helpful tracks he spins a lot. Many legendary bowlers have failed to take a hat trick in their careers while Yuvraj Singh has manged to take a couple of hat tricks in IPL 2009. In one particular match of IPL 2009, Yuvraj Singh after coolly taking a hat trick with vicious spinners, smashed his way to a fifty of 30 deliveries. Such is his talent with the cricket ball he can practically do anything with the ball.
Brilliance as a catcher and ground fielding skills:- As a fielder Yuvraj can be compared only with the likes of Jonty Rhodes, Ricky Ponting, A B Devilliers and Herschelle Gibbs. Yuvraj is one of those rare fielders who can convert cold blooded boundary hits into dot balls or even catches. As a fielder Yuvraj belongs to a rare category of fielders who are brilliant in air and ground fielding.
In Yuvraj Singh India have a player who can win matches with the ball whether it is batting, bowling or fielding or by doing all of them together in the same match.
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