When Rahul Dravid was India captain, he was once asked at a press conference about Yuvraj Singh’s “poor” conversion rate; that he didn’t have too many ODI hundreds to show for. You should judge the batsmen who bat there on the impact they make; their strike-rates,” Dravid had said. AdvertisingOn Monday, Yuvraj called time on a career that spanned close to two decades and had 14 centuries in 304 ODIs. But in a country obsessed with numbers – runs scored, centuries made and milestones achieved – Yuvraj was never about those arid statistics. What happened next became a part of the Indian cricket folklore.

Source: Indian Express June 10, 2019 11:49 UTC