Just a day after Virat Kohli-led India defeated Australia in the 2019 World Cup clash, Yuvraj Singh announced his retirement from international cricket. Though Yuvraj was at the fag end of🍒 his career, not many w🤡ere expecting him to retire at that time.
Fans and experts thought that Yuvi took the decision after being hurt over the World Cup snub. The left-hander las🌊t played for India in 2017 but ended his career only after failing to makꦅe a cut into the World Cup squad.
After his retirement, Yuvraj has several times blamed the selectors for not treating him well. But the two-times World Cup-winner h𝔍as finally revealed why he hanged up his boots in June 2019.
Yuvraj Singh decided to retire after realising cricket was not helping him mentally
“When you are at a fast pace in life you don’t realise a lot of things, and suddenly you are like what has happened here, and I am sitting here at home for 2-3 months, obviously for a different reason. I have got to a stage when cricket was not helping me mentally, I always wanted to play cricket, but it was not helping me in a good state of mind. I was dragging myself and thinking when do I have to retire, should I retire, should I not retire, should I play for another season’,” said the 38-year-old during a recent chat with Gaurav Kapur.
“I miss the game sometimes, but more often, I do not miss it because I have played for so many years. I get so many messages for fans, so much love that I feel really blessed. More than anything the respect the game has given you, and if you are happy with that respect you have earned for the last 20 years I think it’s the right time to move on. So, I think the day I retired, I was free, it was a very emotional moment, I can’t put that in word, but certainly, I feel free after that, mentally very happy. I hadn’t slept since many years, and I tried to sleep really well,” he added.
Yuvraj ended his international career with an outstanding record of 8701 runs and 111 wickets in One-Day Internationals (ODIs). He played a crucial role when MS Dhoni-led India lifted🧔 the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 and clinched the 2011 ODI World Cup at the iconic Wankhede sta𝐆dium in Mumbai.
