Mumbai
Veteran Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh on Friday said Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u2019s presence is crucial to the country\u2019s World Cup chances as he is a \u201cguiding\u201d force for current captain Virat Kohli and \u201cimportant\u201d in decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dhoni\u2019s place in the side has been a subject of debate owing to his inconsistent form but many, including former captain Sunil Gavaskar, have said that his tremendous grasp of match situations makes him invaluable.Yuvraj, the 2011 World Cup\u2019s player of the tournament, echoed the sentiment when asked about the Dhoni factor here at an interaction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think Mahi (Dhoni) has a great cricket brain. And as a wicket-keeper, you are in the best position to monitor the game and he has done that fantastically over the years. He has been a great captain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo, I feel his presence is very important in decision-making. He had a fantastic tournament in Australia and it is good to see him hit the ball how he used to do, and I wish him all the best,\u201d added the batsman, who had hit six sixes in an over during the World T20 in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 37-year-old left-hander found a buyer quite late at the IPL players\u2019 auction held in Jaipur last December for his base price of Rs one crore after going unsold initially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also lauded fellow Punjab player Shubman Gill, who recently made his India One Day debut in New Zealand, saying his progress over the last one year has been amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was excited to see him play for India. It is amazing, how he has improved so much. He came back from the (India) A tour, scored lot of runs in domestic cricket, straightaway got an opportunity,\u201d said Yuvraj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yuvraj also was pleased with rise of teams like Vidarbha, Gujarat and Saurashtra in the domestic circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mumbai Veteran Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh on Friday said Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u2019s presence is crucial to the country\u2019s World Cup chances as he is a \u201cguiding\u201d force for current captain Virat Kohli and \u201cimportant\u201d in decision-making. Dhoni\u2019s place in the side has been a subject of debate owing to his inconsistent form but many, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54595,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54593\/revisions\/54595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}