IMAGE: Yuvraj Singh celebrates hitting the winning runs against Australia during the 2011 World Cup quarter-final match in Ahmedabad, on March 24, 2011. Photograph: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images
World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev said a player of Yuvraj Singh's stature should have got a farewell from the ground and the stylish southpaw will command a place in his All-Time XI as and when he comes up with it.
Neither Yuvraj nor the BCCI has spoken on why the 2011 World Cup hero did not get a farewell game.
The 37-year-old on Monday announced his retirement after 17 years in international cricket.
"Yuvraj will be in my all time eleven whenever I sit down to make my team. I would love to see a player
"The way he played his cricket. The way he is looked up to, what he has gone through in his life (battling cancer). I wish him even better than what he achieved on the cricket field," said the legendary all-rounder.
Yuvraj is among the Indian greats who did not get a farewell game after contemporaries Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Gautam Gambhir.
After he announced his retirement in Mumbai, Yuvraj revealed that he was promised a farewell game by the BCCI provided he failed the 'Yo Yo' fitness test. However, he passed it and the swansong never happened.
IMAGE: Yuvraj Singh celebrates hitting the winning runs against Australia during the 2011 World Cup quarter-final match in Ahmedabad, on March 24, 2011. Photograph: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images
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