... training and getting all the facilities that should have been provided to us.” Asked whether the bowlers have finally sorted his game in this IPL, he retorted back: “If they took two IPLs to understand ...
... game -- Yusuf Pathan's 37-ball 100 with nine fours and 8 sixes. Imagine Nita Ambani hugging the players after a grand win. Imagine Sachin Tendulkar's team making light of the absence of Harbhajan Singh ...
... and three fours. When Mukesh slipped one past Yusuf, and Uday Kaul gleefully completed the stumping, the game was back in hand. The remaining three wickets fell without ado and West were bowled out for ...
... Kolkata.
Meanwhile, opening batsman Gautam Gambhir has been ruled out of the three-game series due to a groin injury, while middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh has not recovered from the wrist injury that ...
... got out early then the tail would have been exposed. Irfan supported me well and we built a good partnership, which proved crucial in the final analysis.
Did you change your game slightly? Were you restricted ...
... form in ODIs that has come under the scanner. "It is a challenge for Yusuf. He has to adapt to conditions in all formats of the game . Being a talented cricketer, I am confident of Yusuf's comeback in ...
... a struggling swing bowler. However, as the game s went by, it became increasingly evident that Pathan was ideal for the shortest format of the game . In the summit clash, he was at his best, picking three ...
... an attacking game ?
Well, yes. It just came naturally, nobody told me to be so. When I was 14, my first coach Bashir Shaikh saw me bat — at that time, I didn’t have much power in my strokes. But he told ...
... skipper. “Shane Warne is a great captain and he knows exactly what to say to a player to motivate him. For instance, he always told me ‘play your game ’ and that’s about it.” Yusuf talks about his magical ...
... the better of the bowlers. After all, we are the defending champions here. If I had been afraid of them, I would not have played the game ,” Yusuf told the IPL’s official website. ...
... this circuit, only the best can survive. The more matches I play, the more chances I get to take wickets. Injury and all the accompanying hazards are part of the game .
Did you pick up any tips from Brett ...
... new ball.
That's a team decision and my personal preferences do not make sense there. I am game for anything that the team wants me to do. If they think I should bowl as one change, I am ready.In a ...
... started off by picking ones and twos before Yusuf got stuck into Daniel Vettori first in the 13th over and then in the 16th, yielding in a total of 32 runs of the two overs to turn the game on its head ...
... his brother took an interest in cricket. Their game s on the grounds off and inside the mosque often necessitated apologies from their father to Muslim worshippers who visited it. In the beginning his deliveries ...
... in cricket. Their game s on the grounds off and inside the mosque often necessitated apologies from their father to Muslim worshippers who visited it.
Early cricketing days
Yusuf Pathan first made ...
