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Yuvraj Singh - That Elegant Swagger, That Squiggling Backlift and That Imperious Power

Let's wind the clock back to October 2000 by simply closing our eyes and entering our mind palaces. Here is what I see... I am traveling with my family from Dehradun to Howrah via the Doon express train and eagerly waiting for the newspaper guy to come and deliver the paper. The guy comes around 7 in the morning, and I get a first-hand glimpse of the front-page headline - ‘A Star is Born’. Having caught the first-page scoop, I quickly turnover to the best pages in the paper, the final two, and scan to look for the scorecard... And there I see… Yuvraj Singh, 84 of 80 balls and India beat Australia to enter the Semis of the 2000 Champions Trophy . And the rest from there on is magic... Magic conjured by a magician who is blessed with the impeccable gift of power, finesse and most importantly, the match-winning ability. For over a decade, Yuvraj Singh won India countless matches and his knocks mattered the most in big competitions like the World Cups… Be it the 2007 WT