Yuvraj Singh is enjoying the game once again. The double hundred in the Duleep Trophy semifinal was special because of what he went through the last one year when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. This is also a reminder to the selectors that he was in the reckoning for a comeback into the Test team in the home series against England and Australia.
“I feel good. I feel happy the way my body kept going. I was enjoying my batting. It is something special about my double hundred particularly after my comeback from what I have gone through. The double hundred is more satisfying,” he said at end of the second day’s game here.
Yuvraj was confident that he will get better and better. “Although I was tired at the end of the day’s play yesterday, I batted for 200 minutes which I was as expected to do. If we qualify for the final, I will have more time to get better and better,” he said.
Saying that T20 is a different ball game, batting in longer version could give the batsman to spend longer time on the crease. “I think in T20 there is not much to go to settle in. In longer version, you can leave lot of balls and can spend on time at the crease and that is the reason I got the runs. It is different after coming back from T20. I will spend a good time at the crease if we play in the final, I will get one more game. I’m sure the more I play, I will get more fitness.”
The left-hander said Hyderabad was a lucky venue. “This is my fourth century on this ground in five games, two against Australia and one against South Africa. I think in my next life I should be born in Hyderabad.”
Yuvraj said he was not thinking of England series yet. “I’m taking one game at a time. If I am fit enough and doing well, then it is not my call. It is my duty to go there spend time at the crease and get my body fit for the four-day or five-day game. That is what I’m doing now.”