November 17, 2008 by Cricket Logger

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.

Keep it up Yuvi!

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