6 star cricketers who were limited-overs specialists

#2 Yuvraj Singh

Yuvraj Singh has made his mark as one of the most explosive limited-overs batsmen ever

In recent years, there has hardly been a batsman in international cricket who can hit the ball out of the park as cleanly as India’s Yuvraj Singh. One of the key architects of India’s changing fortunes in limited-overs cricket since the turn of the century, Yuvraj has been part of two World Cup-winning teams across two different formats.

Power-hitters were a rarity in the Indian cricket at the time when the Chandigarh-born cricket burst on the scene with his exploits in the 2000 Under-19 World Cup. Since then, he has established his reputation as one of the finest stroke players that the country has ever had.

Be it his 6 sixes in the inaugural ICC World T20 in 2007 or his ‘Player of the Tournament’ award-winning antics in the 2011 ICC World Cup, Yuvraj Singh’s career has primarily been about limited-overs cricket. He has played 40 Tests, though, and scored 1900 runs at a decent average of just below 34 and including 3 centuries.

While Yuvraj has been out of the ODI side for nearly 3 years, his last T20I appearance came about in the 2016 ICC World T20.