Former India international Yuvraj Singh has announced his intentions to return to national cricket and represent Punjab in the T20 this season.
Yuvraj had announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in June 2019, but he had been training with the Punjab side recently and was made an offer that he was ultimately unable to refuse.
“I enjoyed spending time with these young people and talking to them about various aspects of the game, I realized that they could pick up on various things I was saying to them,” Yuvraj, 38, told Cricbuzz.
“I had to go online to show you some other items, and I was pleasantly surprised by how well I was hitting the ball even though I hadn’t held a bat for a long time.
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“I also trained during those two months, and then I started hitting in the off-season camp. I did runs in some of the practice games. Mr. Puneet Bali, the secretary of the Punjab Cricket Association, approached me afterwards. that one of the sessions and he asked me if I would reconsider coming out of retirement. “
The 2011 World Cup player admitted it was not a decision he made lightly, but when he made a decision, he quickly sent an email to BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah, asking for permission to reverse his retirement. .
“Initially, I wasn’t sure I wanted to accept the offer. I was done with national cricket, although I wanted to continue playing in other national franchise-based leagues around the world if I got permission from BCCI.
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“But I couldn’t ignore Mr. Bali’s request either. I thought about it a lot, for almost three or four weeks, and it was almost as if in the end I didn’t even have to make a conscious decision.
“The motivation is to help Punjab win championships. Bhajji (Harbhajan Singh), myself, we have won tournaments, but we have not done it together for Punjab, so that was an important factor in my final decision.”
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