There was no coach who could peek into his 20-year-old mind when Yuvraj Singh battled insecurities of that age while playing top-flight cricket under constant scrutiny.

A little over two decades later, Yuvraj says he is glad to have transformed into that coach, who easily reads Abhishek Sharma's mind as he takes world cricket by storm with his breathtaking strokeplay in T20 Internationals.

"You have been looking at it for last eight to nine months but Abhishek has been working on his game for last four to five years. In terms of coaching, at the beginning it was more about sharing my experiences with him and Shubman (Gill) when I was on the verge of retirement," Yuvraj told PTI in an exclusive interaction facilitated by the Laureus foundation.

The 44-year-old feels that over the past fe

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