Yuvraj Singh plays down the expensive player tag

Yuvraj Singh in action for Delhi Daredevils

Responding to the question whether the tag of being the most expensive player is having any impact on Yuvraj, the World Cup winner said he was sleeping by the time of auction and was not even aware of his bidding process. 

"Not really. I was sleeping when the auction was going on. And I didn't tell anybody to give me that money. Whatever money would have given to me, I would have played IPL," Yuvraj said.

The left-hander was in considerable form in the domestic circuit and also scored a crucial fifty against Kings XI Punjab to take his side home, helping them stop the 11-match losing streak. Aged 33, the Punjab cricketer still has some years left in him and when asked if he was eyeing a national comeback through IPL, Yuvraj refused to think too far ahead. 

"I am enjoying my cricket at the moment and I am not thinking too far ahead. Hopefully, as a team we want to get Daredevils back on track. The win in the last match was needed to boost the morale after 11 defeats. In the last game, I got a lot of overs to plan my innings as I needed some time out there in the middle," 

The player also said that coach Gary Kirsten under whom India won the World Cup in 2011 always extracts the best in him. 

"It's the same relationship that we had when he was the India coach. We have a great understanding and somehow Gary gets the best out of me. When he was the India coach, he was managing only 16 players but in a franchise, you need to manage 25 players," he said.

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