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June 13, 2010Posted on 06/13/2010 in Indian cricket
The man who turned cricket balls into lemons
In the Indian Express Sandeep Dwivedi traces the ups and downs in Yuvraj Singh's career leading to his ouster from the Indian team.
The tales about his tall hits that sailed over the palm trees lining the maidan and landed threateningly close to the crowd of evening commuters heading home, got exaggerated after every successive narration. "Ball ko limbu bana deta hai (He turns cricket balls into lemons)," they said, describing the ball's diminishing dimension when on the tip of the parabola that Yuvraj's towering sixes drew.
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