Yuvraj Singh goes down memory lane

Mumbai: On a windy night in Durban, 10 years ago, Yuvraj Singh smashed Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over. Indian cricket’s big match hero recalled his monumental night at an event here saying he enjoyed giving it back to England.

It was one of Yuvraj's many decisive innings that helped, the team win the match as the Englishmen lost the game by just 18 runs. “Anything that I was hitting that night was going off the middle of the bat. The pressure on the sixth ball was obviously on Broad (Stuart). I felt it was my day and I knew that he'd make a mistake and I'll be the one who will benefit,” recollects the left-handed batsman.

The 35-year old also recalled the time when England’s Dimitri Mascarenhas gave him a nightmare with five sixes in one over in a One-Day International at the Oval earlier that year. “I remember getting hit for five sixes in one over and thankfully not many people remember that. So I was happy to give it back,” he joked.

Yuvraj proved to be the key player in India’s campaign to lift the 2011 World Cup but within a year he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He reiterated that it was the zeal to wear the number 12 jersey again, which got him out of the fatal disease. “Sports is something which brings the best out of me and to wear the jersey again gave me more power to fight cancer,” he said.