Yuvraj Singh Reckons The Manner In Which BCCI Managed Him Towards The End Of His Career Was Unprofessonal

Yuvraj Singh, former Indian all-rounder, and World Cup winner, touched upon his retirement from international cricket, and the treatment meted to him and his other compatriots during the fag end of their career.

Yuvraj announced his retirement from the game last year post India’s World Cup campaign and since then, he has been pretty vocal against the ‘unprofessional treatment’ and the manner in which he was managed by the national selectors, team management and the BCCI.

Yuvraj recently interacted with Sportskeeda’s Indranil Basu where he was asked whether he deserved a farewell at the end of his career, the former left-handed swashbuckling batsman said that while its not in his hands, he is not the only one, whose career didn’t end on a good note. He went on to give examples of Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan and Virender Sehwag.

“First of all, I don’t think I’m a legend. I’ve played the game with integrity but I didn’t play much Test cricket. Legendary players are those who have good Test records. For giving somebody a farewell, that’s not for me to decide, that’s for BCCI to decide,” said Yuvraj Singh.

“I just felt that the way they managed me towards the end of my career was very unprofessional. But looking back at a couple of great players like Harbhajan, Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, also very badly mis-managed. So it is part of Indian cricket, I had seen it in the past and I was not really surprised,” he added.

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Yuvraj Singh further went on to name the likes of Gautam Gambhir and VVS Laxman, who despite playing stellar roles for India in both ODI and Test cricket did not even get a farewell match. Hailing Virender Sehwag as India’s biggest match-winner after Sunil Gavaskar in Test cricket, Yuvraj said players of such stature should be honored for their services to the country.

“But in the future, anybody who has played for India for a long time and has been through tough situations, you should definitely honour him. Give him that respect, somebody like Gautam Gambhir, who has won two World Cups for us. Sehwag, who has been the biggest match-winner after Sunil Gavaskar in Tests. VVS, Zaheer, also,” Yuvraj Singh added.

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