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‘Kid, whoever you are, stop bowling at me, man!’: Yuvraj Singh on facing a 16-year-old Jasprit Bumrah in the nets | Cricket News

‘Kid, whoever you are, stop bowling at me, man!’: Yuvraj Singh on facing a 16-year-old Jasprit Bumrah in the nets | Cricket News

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3 min readApr 9, 2026 04:12 PM IST There are arguably no bigger terrors for batters in the modern-day game than facing Jasprit Bumrah. Over the last few years, the India pacer has become one of the most lethal bowlers of the current era, someone who has earned the respect of batters in all formats of the sport. But, now Yuvraj Singh has opened up about how tantalising it was to face off against a 16-year-old Bumrah in the nets. Yuvraj, who was a guest on The Overlap Cricket hosted by Michael Vaughan recently, narrated the incident of facing Bumrah back in 2013. “When I was trying to make a comeback in the Indian team after battling cancer — I was trying to get back into cricket — and Bumrah was about 16 years old and he was bowling rapid in the nets. And I was like, ‘I want this kid out of the nets’ and ‘stop bowling to me’. I was like, ‘Kid, stop! Whoever you are.’ Because I was just trying to make …

‘And some of them like the Shisha and that’s their way of…’ : Michael Hussey on the relaxed team atmosphere in CSK built by former skipper MS Dhoni | Cricket News

‘And some of them like the Shisha and that’s their way of…’ : Michael Hussey on the relaxed team atmosphere in CSK built by former skipper MS Dhoni | Cricket News

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With MS Dhoni still playing for Chennai Super Kings, the former Indian captain is expected to play in next year’s IPL edition too. While Dhoni had given the captaincy earlier, the former Indian wicket-keeper has been the strongest pillar in the CSk set-up. Former CSK player and now CSK coach Michael Hussey has revealed how the CSK environment is one of the best and how Dhoni is available 24 hours a day and the team’s youngsters and seniors bonded with each other with some even enjoying Shisha, the flavoured tobacco hookah. Hussey was replying after being asked by former England captain Michael Vaughan about the team bonding on Stick to Cricket podcast on YouTube channel The Overlap Cricket. “So it depends on which environment you are in. The Chennai Super Kings Environment is phenomenal. So maybe westerners, we will go to the bar or you know sir in the dressing room and have a beer and talk about the game and learn about the game there. In India, it’s different because obviously culturally it’s a …