‘Meri kursi na chheen le’: MS Dhoni was ‘scared’ of Yuvraj Singh, a ‘backstabber’ — Yograj Singh | Cricket News

NEW DELHI: Yograj Singh, father of former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh, has launched recent accusations in opposition to his son’s former teammates, together with Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, calling them backstabbers. He stated that Sachin Tendulkar was Yuvraj’s solely real pal in cricket, whereas claiming different gamers feared shedding their place within the workforce to him.“As I told you, there are no friends in the sphere of success, money and glory. There were always backstabbers, people who wanted to put you down. People were scared of Yuvraj Singh because they were afraid where he would usurp their seats because he was such a great player created by the God Almighty. He has been the greatest of players, who they were scared – right from MS Dhoni, everybody – ‘oh he might take my chair,'” Yograj stated.

This will not be the primary time Yograj has made such remarks about Yuvraj’s former teammates. He has usually claimed that his son was pushed into early retirement.Yuvraj Singh, nonetheless, loved a celebrated worldwide profession from 2000 to 2017, that includes in 402 matches for India. He scored 11,178 runs at a mean of 35.05, with 17 centuries and 71 fifties to his identify.He was instrumental in India’s main title triumphs, being half of the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, the 2007 ICC T20 World Cup, and the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.Yuvraj additionally turned the primary Indian to hit six consecutive sixes in an over in worldwide cricket, attaining the feat in opposition to England within the 2007 T20 World Cup.The excessive level of his profession got here within the 2011 World Cup, the place he was named Player of the Tournament after scoring 362 runs in 9 matches, together with a century and 4 half-centuries, alongside 15 wickets.