used2bcool
Club Captain
I'd be willing to pick Yuvraj over DK if he shows a committment to fitness and improves his attitude. In recent times, Yuvraj has looked lazy - and he's looked fat. Seriously. He's looked fat. It's difficult to wrap my mind around that - I still have an image of him from somewhere around 2005.
Dhoni had to hide Yuvraj in the field the last time he played. Yuvraj should take that as a personal insult and at least try to be at the same levels of fitness and athleticism as he once was. That said, there is no doubting of the skill of Yuvraj, though with the advent of Ravindra Jadeja, the slow-bowling all-rounder role is already filled. Yes, Yuvraj is a far superior batsman, but now that he's less needed as a bowler puts more focus on his fielding skills, and there his decline makes him a liability to the team.
Dhoni had to hide Yuvraj in the field the last time he played. Yuvraj should take that as a personal insult and at least try to be at the same levels of fitness and athleticism as he once was. That said, there is no doubting of the skill of Yuvraj, though with the advent of Ravindra Jadeja, the slow-bowling all-rounder role is already filled. Yes, Yuvraj is a far superior batsman, but now that he's less needed as a bowler puts more focus on his fielding skills, and there his decline makes him a liability to the team.
The current Yuvraj is nothing but a pale shadow of what he actually is. Garnered enough sympathy for his cancer (which was not even a life threatening one) and then didn't have the strength in him to get back to peak fitness. Even when he was without the cancer, his fielding levels fell dramatically. And the reason often given was his recurrent knee problems. He feared further knee injuries and so wouldn't indulge himself during fielding, which caused his fielding to dip dramatically.
