Disappointments have become part of my life

Axed from the Test squad,Yuvraj Singh insisted he was in good nick during the Sri Lanka tour and the selectors decision has come as a big disappointment for him.

Axed from the Test squad,Yuvraj Singh insisted he was in good nick during the Sri Lanka tour and the selectors decision has come as a big disappointment for him. Selection is not in my hands. In Sri Lanka I played two games,in the first I scored a hundred and a fifty in the second. If thats not good enough,I cant say, he said. Of course it is a disappointment but disappointments have become part of my life. In the last two years,I have had a lot of injuries and struggled. Its out of my hands, he added.

On his fitness,the Punjab left-hander said,Its much better now. Sri Lanka tour was hard for me especially due to dengue and the neck injury. In the next few days I will be more fitter. Asked why he was struggling in the longer format of the game,Yuvraj said he himself could not identify the shortcomings.

Not a great feeling. For the last seven years I have been trying to cement my place in the Test team but have not been able to do that. And that is a big disappointment. The reasons may be many. The first reason even I dont know. Then I was injured and got ill. The last two games,I am satisfied and then Raina scored a hundred and he got the chance to play the next match. These things are not under my control, he said. If I continue to be dropped like this,definitely I will have to look for something else, he added in jest.

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For the second time in four months that Yuvraj has been dropped. The selectors felt that his form and fitness were on the wane and ignored him when the Asia Cup squad was announced. However,he was picked for the Test series and the tri-series in Sri Lanka.

Things looked up for him when he made a century in the warm-up game ahead of the Test series. In the first innings of the first Test in Galle he made 52 and 5. However,he never got another chance after missing the second Test after being diagnosed with dengue. Suresh Raina,who took his spot in the Playing XI for the second Test,scored a century on debut and retained his place for the third and final Test.

In the tri-series,when the Indian batting unit failed,Yuvraj made just 75 runs from four innings. At the end of the tri-series,skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was time-and-again asked about how long a rope Yuvraj would be given. Dhoni believed that Yuvraj would come good sooner rather than later and made it clear that he was one of the key players with the World Cup around the corner.

However,for now,his Test career has come to a halt.

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