Yuvraj Singh to make a comeback after announcing retirement last year

A little over a year ago, all-rounder Yuvraj Singh announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. In June 2019, the veteran decided to call it quits from the game. After entertaining the fans for about a decade and a half, he took the tough call to hang his boots. After the announcement, Yuvi then went on to play in the Global T20 Canada and even took part in the T10 competition.

However, Yuvraj Singh has made a u-turn now and has announced his plans of making a comeback. If things go as per his plan, the 38-year-old should be soon making his return to the Punjab team and is expected to play in the shortest format. Even though he isn’t playing any cricket currently, Yuvraj has been spending a lot of time with the young cricketers of Punjab of late.

He has passed his time with the likes of Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh and Anmolpreet Singh at the PCA Stadium in Mohali providing them with some valuable insights. It might be that he found back his love for the game during this time.

I enjoyed spending time with the youngsters

Speaking to the media, Yuvraj Singh revealed that he enjoyed spending time with the youngsters. He also revealed that he has been speaking to them about various aspects of the game. It was during this time that Yuvraj had to get into the nets to demonstrate the youngsters a few things. He mentioned that he was pleasantly surprised at how well he was hitting the ball even though he didn’t play the game in a long time.

“I enjoyed spending time with these youngsters, and talking to them about various aspects of the game, I realised that they were able to pick up various things that I was telling them,” Yuvraj said on Wednesday to Cricbuzz, as he confirmed his comeback plans. “I had to get into the nets to show them a few other elements, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well I was hitting the ball even though I hadn’t held a bat for a really long time.”

Yuvraj Singh also trained after the lockdown restrictions were lifted. He said that he made a few runs in the off-season camp and spoke about PCA’s secretary approaching him.

“I also trained for those two months, and then I started to bat in the off-season camp. I made runs in some of the practice matches. Mr Puneet Bali, the secretary of the Punjab Cricket Association, approached me after one of the sessions and asked me if I would reconsider coming out of retirement.”

“Initially, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to take up the offer,” Yuvraj admitted. “I was done with domestic cricket, though I did want to continue to play in other domestic franchise-based leagues worldwide if I got permission from the BCCI. But I also couldn’t ignore Mr Bali’s request. I gave it a lot of thought, for nearly three or four weeks, and it was almost as if I didn’t even have to make a conscious decision in the end,” he added.