Yograj Singh, father of former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh, often remains in the headlines due to his statements. Once again he is in discussions. This time he has attacked the selectors over the changes in the Indian cricket team after the 2011 World Cup. He says that the selectors ended the career of many players without reason, including Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid and Mohammad Kaif.
Actually, Yograj Singh said in his recent interview that, you have finished these players like this. You broke the entire team after the 2011 World Cup. The career of seven players was dumped in the garbage.
At the same time, Yograj Singh has also fiercely lashed out by former selector Mohinder Amarnath and his committee. He claimed that after the defeat against England and Australia from 0-4, it was decided to remove MS Dhoni from the captaincy. But the then BCCI president A Srinivasan stopped the decision.
Amarnath had also admitted earlier that the selection committee had taken the decision to remove Dhoni unanimously but was stopped at a high level of BCCI. Amarnath said in an interview many years ago that if you do not give freedom to the selectors, then what is the meaning of the selection committee?
Let me tell you that in 2011, many legendary players who won India to India like Gambhir, Yuvraj, Harbhajan and Zaheer, were completely out of the team by the 2015 World Cup. At the same time, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman retired from Test cricket after some time.
However, Dhoni remained the captain and led the Test team by the end of 2014. He also handed over limited overs captaincy to Virat Kohli in January 2017. Yograj Singh has once again exposed the changes and internal politics in Indian cricket after 2011 in Indian cricket.