Former pacer Roger Binny defended the decision taken by the selection committee of the time to drop Yuvraj Singh for one last time in 2017 and move on other young talents waiting in the wings.
Binny, among the heroes of the 1983 World Cup win, said the left-hand batsman can't put the blame for how his career ended on the selectors, believing that he could've played for at least another two years.
"I think he had tremendous talent and in his era he was one of the tremendous strikers of the ball in world cricket. So he had a fantastic career and I feel that it was the right time where he was dropped and some youngster came into his place," Binny told Sportskeeda on Yuvraj, among the finest India produced in the limited-overs game.
Yuvraj, key to India's 2007 T20 World Cup and 2011 ODI World Cup wins, had only recently said that he wasn't treated as well by the selectors and the team management towards the end of his career.
The 38-year-old, who played 40 Tests, 304 ODIs and 58 ODIs, brought curtains to his international career in 2019, with his last outing dating back three years.
Binny said that Yuvraj's form and fitness had been on the decline significantly before the decision to drop him.
"Maybe they feel that way but definitely selectors were strict with him. So you can't blame the selectors for that. The selectors are strict and they look through the team. The captain is the main one in the team and he has to answer out there. So it is an effort from the five selectors and a captain," said Binny, himself a former selector.
"Towards the end of your career, when you are playing your last few years, you are not the same as you were earlier. Your fitness levels are down, you are not performing as well as you have done in the past. So I think Yuvraj probably felt he could play a little more cricket," he concluded.
