Kapil Dev's comments that Yuvraj is not hungry enough seem to have provoked Yuvraj to get back in form and perform to show the legendary Kapil that Yuvi can perfom. Yes, Yuvi can comeback.
Yuvi had his sceond heroic performance in two ODIs against England. In both the ODIs, he was, mainly, responsible for crushing victories against England. He scored 118 in the second ODI while grabbing 4 economic wickets. If you can recall, he had scored 138 not out during the first ODI. Two consecutive centuries in ODI - wow!
In the second ODI, it was a real heroic performance. When Yuvi joined Ganmbhir, India was reeling under pressure at 29/3 in the early overs. Together, they played a very pationate innings, controlling themselves. They played quock singles and doubles to keep the score board trickling and consistently raising the run rates.
Later, England collapsed to 238 all out
after Yuvraj ended a 96-run second-wicket partnership by removing Owais
Shah (58) and Matt Prior (38) in successive overs before returning 4-28
bowling slow left-arm spin on a sluggish pitch.
He returned to dismiss Andrew Flintoff (43) and skipper Kevin
Pietersen (33) in the same over after their racy 74-run fourth-wicket
partnership had kept alive England hopes before they lost four wickets
for eight runs.
Yuvraj
Singh is expected to perform superbly during the ODI series against Sri
Lanka, starting August 18. Currently he is placed at 15th spot of ICC
batting chart and is expected to move upward within first 10.
Indian ODI captain Mahendra
Singh Dhoni has the best potential to inch closer to top spot of ICC batting chart if he continues his
good form of the.
Dhoni is 19 points adrift of table topper South African Graeme Smith in
the latest ICC ODI batting list with 773 rating points to his kitty.
Gautam Gambhir (19th) is the other India batsmen in the top 20. He is well
placed to move upwards if they perform well in the forthcoming matches.
Sixth-placed Sachin Tendulkar is likely to lose ground after an
elbow injury has sidelined him for the ODI series. A player loses one per cent
of his rating for missing every match.
Sri Lanka's 10th-placed Kumar Sangakkara can cause some reshuffling
in the top 10 while veteran teammate Sanath Jayasuriya (15th) also has the top
10 spot firmly within his sights.
In the bowlers' list, headed by
Australian Nathan Bracken, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is the highest ranked
Indian at 24th and is well placed to enter the top 15 with his current form and performance in Sri Lanka.
If India wins the series 5-0, it will go ahead
of New Zealand on 118 ratings points to third place and seventh-placed Sri Lanka
will drop to 98 ratings points and eighth position on the ladder.
On
the other side of the coin, India could drop to as low as seventh with 105
ratings points if it looses all its matches while Sri Lanka can climb three
places to fourth position.
If India wins 4-1, it will stay in fourth
place but will reduce the gap with New Zealand to one ratings point while Sri
Lanka will slip to 101 ratings points.
Indian side announced its new and younger looking team for the ODIs with Australia. Biggest surprise came in the form of dropping of Saurav Ganguly from the team headed by Captain Dhoni.
I think the reasons leading to Ganguly's omission include poor fielding and running between the wickets, which is very critical to winning One Day Matches. Also, the selectors might have considered his performance at Nagpur match where he couldn't push the run machine while chasing a thriller at Nagpur.
Yuvi had his sceond heroic performance in two ODIs against England. In both the ODIs, he was, mainly, responsible for crushing victories against England. He scored 118 in the second ODI while grabbing 4 economic wickets. If you can recall, he had scored 138 not out during the first ODI. Two consecutive centuries in ODI - wow!
