"I would have dropped Yuvraj Singh from my team in that last match, purely because we have seen in the last few matches Yuvraj Singh is still not quite 70% or 80%, maybe it is time now to slowly get him to work on his fitness, keep him involved in Indian cricket, but leaving out Sehwag was not such a good idea because he does what you need right at the start of the innings: put the opposition under pressure."
Yuvraj was included in the World Twenty20 squad, ahead of
Ajinkya Rahane, even before he had had any serious match practice, and has played only a handful of T20s since undergoing chemotherapy in March.
Shastri said Yuvraj's rustiness was obvious. "We got to see if Yuvraj is 100% fit, and let's not think about Yuvraj 10 months ago," Shastri said.
