The English media went miles ahead of their Indian counterpart in glorifying Yuvraj Singh's pluck in Rajkot. The Guardian, while lambasting Kevin Pietersen and group, went to the extent of saying: "All he seemed to do to create shots possessed of the grace of Garry Sobers, the power of Clive Lloyd and flair of Brian Lara was to wave his bat somewhere in the vicinity of the ball."
 
Yuvraj was injured and wore a black belt around his waist. He did not play front foot, did not play back foot either. Yet his shots were so effortless that it reminded of his six-ball 36 off Stuart Broad in the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.
 
The English bowlers must have taken a tip or two from Broad on how to target a batsman's bat, not wicket. All of them threw balls straight to his bat, not short of length or outside the off stump. And by the time the demolition man warmed up, his willow had turned into a magnet. It just attracted all the balls towards it.
 
When nothing worked, Andrew Flintoff tried to disarm Yuvraj with his bemused look. Even that did not work. The usually aggressive Flintoff tried to handle it with wit and intelligence. He knew well that if he showed aggression he would end up like Shoaib Akhtar, who was thoroughly roughed up by Sachin Tendulkar in the 2006 World Cup match. More the speed, more was the battering.
 
But nothing to worry, Freddie. Yuvraj is even more inconsistent than you because of which he has not been able to cement his place in the Test squad so far. Just wait and watch. In the mean time you can make an appeal to the media in your country to handle the Sobers-Lloyd-Lara in one with care on his next fall. The man has injury in his waist!