In 2008, former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen had described the Indian all-rounder, Yuvraj Singh, as a “pie-chucker”, ridiculing the latter’s bowling. Yuvraj, on his part, cited the occasions when he got better of the English batsman and said Pietersen was useless for his repeated failures to get the better of his bowling.
After almost a decade, and Yuvraj continues taking digs at Pietersen. The former England star took to Instagram, and shared England’s cricket’s video of his masterful switch-hit shot against New Zealand all-rounder Scott Styris, and captioned it, “Just dealing with pies”.
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Soon enough, Yuvraj posted a hilarious comment on the post and trolled the England cricketer. Along with a ‘laughing’ emoji, the Indian southpaw wrote: “Well sometimes u slip on those pies too.”
Following the back-and-forth in 2008 between two of the biggest cricketers of their time, the duo shared a good bond off the field. Kevin Pietersen had also visited the Indian cricketer at his residence in Gurgaon in 2012 after Yuvraj had returned after undergoing cancer treatment in the United States. After meeting the southpaw, Pietersen had tweeted, “Great to hook up with the pie chucker…”
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Yuvraj, once a poster boy of Indian cricket, decided to hang his boot from international cricket in 2019. His career lasted for almost 19 years and he played over 400 matches. He played 40 Tests, in which he scored 1900 runs with an average of 33.92 (3 centuries and 11 50s). His highest Test score of 169 came against Pakistan in 2007 at Bengaluru.
A massive 304 ODIs was where Yuvraj really delivered, scoring 8701 runs at an average of 36.55 with 14 centuries and 42 fifties. His highest score was 150 against England at Cuttack in 2017.
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He was one of the best T20I cricketers as well as he played 58 matches to score 1177 runs with a superb strike rate of 136.38, with a top score of 77 not out versus Australia at Rajkot in 2013.
