Champs of 2000: lost in transition
As Virat Kohli and his team of U19 champs savour their sweet victory, spare a thought for the colts of 2000 who won a World Cup seven years ago. While Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif are still in the reckoning, who remembers others like Ritender Sodhi (man of the match in the 2000 final) and Ajay Ratra, asks Anand Vasu in Hindustan Times.
Yuvraj Singh
Of the class of 2000, he is the only player has escaped the ravages of time and grown in stature enough to be called a permanent fixture in the Indian team. Even he, recently appointed vice-captain to Mahendra Singh Dhoni for ODIs is not entirely sure of a place in the Test team. It’s been a career of ups and down for Yuvraj, but his audacious talent has shone through often enough to always keep him in the reckoning. It still bothers him, though, that in eight years of international cricket he has played just 22 Tests in comparison to 203 ODIs.
