Former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh may have been a T20 giant, but the little T10 cricket he has played has convinced him the format is “too difficult” for him.
Since announcing his retirement in June 2019, Yuvraj has explored franchise leagues in remote cricket destinations. He played the Global Canada T20 league in August last year, and then went to Abu Dhabi in November to get his first taste of T10 cricket.
It seems it wasn’t an experience he enjoyed too much. “After [Canada] we played in Abu Dhabi, T10 … I’m slowing with age, but the game is becoming faster,” he told Gaurav Kapur in an Oaktree Sports video on YouTube. “I said, ‘bhai this format is too difficult.’
“In T20s, you get eight or 10 balls … [so you can] take eight or 10 singles, [settle down], and then hit sixes. But here, one dot ball, and there’s immediately pressure. You have to swing in the second and third balls.”
Yuvraj played five matches in the tournament for the Maratha Arabians, but scored just 44 runs in four innings, with a high score of 23*. Despite that, his team went on to win the tournament, beating Shane Watson’s Deccan Gladiators in the final.
