Yuvraj Singh turned every Indian cricket fan nostalgic when he hammered Yuzvendra Chahal for a hat-trick of sixes. As soon as he whacked the third maximum, everyone thought that the left-hander would repeat what he did 12 years ago during the inaugural T20 World Cup at Durban.

However, in an attempt to get the fourth, he ended up getting caught by Mohammed Siraj at the long-off boundary. Chahal finally had the sigh of relief after the Indian veteran was dismissed on 23 of 12. But he admitted that he felt like Stuart Broad when he was getting hammered.


“When he (Yuvraj) hit three sixes, I felt like Stuart Broad,” Chahal said referring to the six consecutive maximums in the 2007 T20 World Cup that Yuvraj had hit off Englishman Broad.


“You know he is a legend batsman and I backed myself. I had to bowl a bit up, might be a chance to get him out because it is a smaller ground. So that time, I thought of bowling my best delivery and he got sixes. That you cannot help and hence I bowled a wider googly,” he added.

On September 19, 2007, in a World T20 match in Durban, Yuvraj had scripted a carnage by walloping six sixes off Broad in an over during a 16-ball 58.

Speaking about the wicket, Chahal said since it was good for batting, he varied his pace, especially for the big-hitting Kieron Pollard.

“The wicket was not turning. It was good for batting. So, the plan was to vary my pace, like bowling slower ones and sometimes sliders too,” he said.