The all-rounder, accompanied by his wife and mother, told reporters of his decision at a city hotel close to the Wankhede Stadium where India lifted their last 50-overs World Cup title in 2011. Cricket has given me everything and that's why I am standing here," he said after being reduced to tears by a video of the highlights of his career. Yuvraj, who played the last of his 304 one-day internationals two years ago, was a key cog in India's World Twenty20 triumph in 2007 and was player-of-the-tournament at the World Cup four years later. In his heyday, Yuvraj was one of the cleanest strikers of the ball in the game -- as England’s Stuart Broad discovered when he was bludgeoned for six sixes in one over during the 2007 World Twenty20. He scored 1,900 runs in the longest format of the game with three hundreds and 11 half-centuries.

Source: bd News24 June 10, 2019 08:26 UTC