With the T20 World Cup less than a week away, waiting to manifest itself in the grandest scheme of things, sweet reminiscences have already started doing the rounds. One of India’s best T20 World Cup memories has to be that of Yuvraj Singh’s six sixes in an over where Stuart Broad was left at the receiving end of some serious heat, after the Indian southpaw picked up an altercation with Flintoff.
To add context to why this innings was special for Yuvraj, he was smacked for five sixes in an over by Dimitri Mascarenhas just ahead of the showpiece event. Former Indian cricketer, Robin Uthappa narrated the entire story around this dynamic display from the former RCB cricketer and what were the minuscule events that pervaded through the dugout.
Talking on a video on Star Sports, Uthappa recalled, “I got out, went to the dressing room, took my pads off and came down. But by the time I reached, the altercation had already happened. But I knew from Yuvi’s body language, that he was pumped up.”
That is when the remainder of the story started with the actual narrative of the over coming forth. Uthappa added, “Pehla chhakka dekhke laga, paaji gusse me hai (When I saw the first six, I thought he is angry). When he hit the second one, we thought he might be onto something here. After the third six, everyone was like, ‘just sit wherever you are’. I think it was DK (Dinesh Karthik) or somebody else, he wanted to go to the loo. We just said, ‘nobody is moving. Just stay put until the over gets over.”
The former RCB batter concluded by saying about the final two deliveries of the over as he said, “I remember all of us were so elated. When he hit the fifth one, we knew the sixth was going to come. We just knew sitting down there. And that’s exactly what happened. We celebrated the six and we sat back down. We were really happy that he had given back to England what he received. It kind of deflated the wind out of England’s sails.”
source: http://www.royalchallengers.com / RoyalChallengers.com / Home> News / by The Editor / October 11th, 2022
