Mumbai, Jan 13: Stylish left-hander Yuvraj Singh is targeting the last two one-dayers against the West Indies to stage his international comeback, three months after tearing his knee ligament in Mohali. Yuvraj said it was important that he played some matches before the World Cup in March-April and if he could not make it to the series against West Indies, he would definitely like to compete against the Sri Lankans whom India play next. "I would like to play the last two ODIs against the West Indies (January 27 at Chennai and January 31 at Vadodara) or the matches against Sri Lanka, It's important for me to play a few games before the World Cup," Yuvraj said.
"But I can't give a time-frame," the Punjab batsman, who has been named in the provisional 30-member World Cup squad, told reporters here today. Yuvraj said he would be training with the Indian team at Nagpur on January 17 and 18 before proceeding to Kolkata to play three Twenty20 games for his employers Indian Airlines. "I played a game (50-over match with Mumbai under-19 probables) yesterday after two-and-a-half months. I wanted to field first for 5 overs and then bat, and did so for 25 to 30 overs. I felt really good," he said.
Yuvraj also underwent a test by the Primus RS (Rehabilitation System) machine at the Saifee Hospital here today in the presence of cricket board's physician Dr Anant Joshi, former Indian team physio Andrew Leipus and Joshi's physiotherapist son, Dr Mithun, who has been treating the player of late. Anant Joshi described the outcome of the machine test as "very satisfactory". "It gave us an objective report of the rehab process while the physical test done at the CCI (two days ago) was a subjective analysis," he said. (Agencies)
