The day Yograj Singh knew Yuvraj was special
When people ask me about Yuvraj Singh’s 2007 T20 World Cup heroics, my mind wanders to a day when he was just two and a half years old. It was months after the demise of my father. I got a plastic bat and asked my mother to bowl to the then two-and-a-half-year-old Yuvraj in our drawing room in Chandigarh. Within minutes, Yuvi hit the ball with such ferocity with his backlift that it broke one of the windows. He was in a bathrobe kind of dress and was barely wearing anything below. He still has a photograph from that day but does not show it (laughs). That day only, I told my mother, “Sade ghar Sir Garfield Sobers paida hoya hai” (Sir Garfield Sobers has been born at our home). As a cricketer and coach, I am only a fan of three players: Sir Garfield Sobers, Viv Richards and Yuvraj Singh. While Viv Richards was very hard-hitting, both Sir Garfield Sobers and Yuvraj Singh were like poetry on the cricket pitch. The kind of elegance …
