Yuvraj Singh profile

Yuvraj Singh      

India

Full name Yuvraj Singh

Born December 12, 1981, Chandigarh

Current age 29 years 107 days

Major teams India, Asia XI,Kings XI Punjab, Punjab,Yorkshire

Playing role Middle-order batsman

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Relation Father - B Yograj Singh

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	34	52	6	1639	169	35.63	2782	58.91	3	9	227	17	30	0
ODIs	272	250	37	8030	139	37.69	9167	87.59	13	49	825	144	83	0
T20Is	23	22	4	567	70	31.50	374	151.60	0	5	34	38	6	0
First-class	95	152	18	6044	209	45.10			18	29			91	0
List A	342	315	47	10215	172	38.11			17	62			105	0
Twenty20	79	77	9	1787	71	26.27	1313	136.10	0	10	147	95	21	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	34	26	751	431	8	2/9	2/20	53.87	3.44	93.8	0	0	0
ODIs	272	148	4712	3954	105	5/31	5/31	37.65	5.03	44.8	2	1	0
T20Is	23	11	144	194	8	3/23	3/23	24.25	8.08	18.0	0	0	0
First-class	95		1981	1083	20	3/25		54.15	3.28	99.0		0	0
List A	342		5781	4830	139	5/31	5/31	34.74	5.01	41.5	2	1	0
Twenty20	79	45	564	700	31	3/13	3/13	22.58	7.44	18.1	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	India v New Zealand at Mohali, Oct 16-20, 2003 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v India at Galle, Jul 18-22, 2010 scorecard
Test statistics	- Statsguru Test analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  Test match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  Bowling match list  Best innings bowling  Best match bowling  Bowling series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
ODI debut	Kenya v India at Nairobi (Gym), Oct 3, 2000 scorecard
Last ODI	India v Australia at Ahmedabad, Mar 24, 2011 scorecard
ODI statistics	- Statsguru ODI analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  ODI match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  Best innings bowling  Bowling series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
T20I debut	India v Scotland at Durban, Sep 13, 2007 scorecard
Last T20I	South Africa v India at Durban, Jan 9, 2011 scorecard
T20I statistics	- Statsguru T20I analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  T20I match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  Best innings bowling  Bowling series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
First-class debut	1996/97
Last First-class	Himachal Pradesh v Punjab at Dharamsala, Nov 17-20, 2010 scorecard
List A debut	1999/00
Last List A	India v Australia at Ahmedabad, Mar 24, 2011 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Yorkshire v Derbyshire at Leeds, Jun 14, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20	South Africa v India at Durban, Jan 9, 2011 scorecard

Profile

When all is well with Yuvraj Singh, he hits the ball as clean and long as it has ever been hit. When all is not well, he looks so awkward you forget he can hit the ball clean and long. All is well with Yuvraj more often in limited-overs cricket, where he can be effortless and brutal at the same time, than in Tests. When he started off his athleticism on the field and his canny left-arm spin made him a dream one-day player as Indian cricket went through a makeover at the turn of the century.

Yuvraj's father, Yograj, who played one Test for India, was what Mike Agassi was to Andre. So obsessed was he with Yuvraj's cricket that he took a skating gold medal off his young son's neck and threw it out of the car. "From now on, you are going to play cricket." And from then on he has played cricket. The major shift came when, at 15, he carried kitbags in crowded local trains, living away from his parents and a luxurious life in Punjab. At 18 he was shredding a strong Australian attack, in only his second ODI, in the Champions Trophy in 2000.

Soon Yuvraj would become India's middle-order lynchpin, forming fruitful partnerships first with Rahul Dravid and then with MS Dhoni. Both batsmen, superb ODI operators in their own right, credited their success to Yuvraj's ability to score at will. Testament to Yuvraj's importance is that when he was dropped from the ODI side in 2010, it was the first such occurrence since he cemented his place in the Indian team. While his ODI career is full of highlight reels, perhaps the biggest impact was his contribution to India's World Twenty20 triumph in 2007, where he famously hit a Stuart Broad over for six sixes.

However, his limitations have manifested themselves in Tests, where he has struggled both against the seaming and swinging ball, and quality spin. Apart from three shining innings - a sparkling century on a Lahore greentop, another from 61 for 4 against Pakistan, and an unbeaten 85 in a successful chase of 387 in Chennai - his Test career doesn't have much to write home about.

Posted in: Yuvraj Singh