Yuvraj Singh Was Dropped At The Right Time: Former Selector Roger Binny

Yuvraj Singh, the former Indian World Cup-winning all-rounder, has often expressed his displeasure at how the team-management, selectors and the BCCI in general, treated him in the final stages of his international career.

Once an indispensable part of the Indian white-ball teams’, Yuvraj lost his place in the ODI set-up post-2012 even though he continued to be a part of the T20 team.

Yuvraj Singh did not play a single One-day International between December 2013 to January 2017 and was overlooked for the 2015 World Cup in Australia & New Zealand despite having score three back-to-back hundreds in Ranji Trophy in the lead-up to the event as the team-management went with all-rounder Stuart Binny.

Roger Binny on Yuvraj Singh getting dropped from the side during his tenure

Roger Binny, a member of the 1983 World Cup-winning Indian team and national selector between 2012-2015, feels that Yuvraj’s fitness, as well as his form, has vaned big time and he was dropped at the right time.

“Towards the end of your career, when you are playing your last few years, you are not the same as you were earlier. Your fitness levels are down, you are not performing as well as you have done in the past. So I think Yuvraj probably felt he could play little more cricket,” Roger Binny told Sportskeeda.

I think he had tremendous talent and in his era he was one of the tremendous strikers of the ball in world cricket. So he had a fantastic career and I feel that it was the right time where he was dropped and some youngster came into his place,” he added.

Yuvraj Singh did make a comeback to the ODI team in January 2017 against England where he registered his career-best score. His stint, however, was cut short in August of the same year when he flunked the ‘Yo-Yo’ test. The all-rounder never got another chance despite having passed the fitness test later and he finally called it quits in 2019.

The former swashbuckling opener called time on his career that saw him represent India in 40 Tests, 304 ODIs, and 58 T20Is, in which he racked up 1900, 8701, and 1177 runs respectively with the help of 73 half-centuries and 17 hundreds.

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