Needle works
Makarand Waigankar believes Yuvraj Singh is the ideal successor of Sourav Ganguly
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
Makarand Waigankar believes Yuvraj Singh is the ideal successor of Sourav Ganguly. Read his piece in the Mumbai Mirror.
When in mood, moody players destroy the opponents. When not in mood, they destroy themselves. This is an apt description of Yuvraj Singh. Such players are not slaves of technique. Their technique is a slave of their emotional state. To Yuvraj Singh, the point of impact while playing shot is what matters. Technical gyan doesn’t interest him.
Such players are never consistent. His inconsistency may have prompted Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar to question his focus on the game but highly temperamental cricketers can’t be expected to stay focussed all the time. Temperamental cricketers expect others to understand them. They need to be handled. They have to be needled at the right time the way Kapil Dev and Vengsarkar did by saying that Yuvi needs to be focussed. This must have really angered him but hasn’t it worked? Chaavi(provocation) as we say in Mumbai cricket.
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo