Ashish Nehra says Yuvraj Singh became a far better cricketer under MS Dhoni's captaincy

Ashish Nehra and Yuvraj Singh have played a lot of cricket toger for India at highest level. duo has been a part of many of Team India's emphatic wins which include historic 2011 World Cup triumph. Meanwhile, Nehra has come forward and said under whose captaincy Yuvraj has played his best cricket.

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'Played well under Dhoni': Ashish Nehra

During a recent interaction on a show of official broadcasters of IPL, former medium pacer went on to say that Yuvraj has played well under MS Dhoni as far as he has seen Yuvi's career. veteran left-arm pacer also mentioned that way dashing southpaw has batted in 2007 and 2008 onwards has been impeccable. 

Reflecting on India's triumphant 2011 World Cup campaign, Delhi bowler added that Yuvraj Singh had braved his sickness and played brilliantly under Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Yuvi had earlier said that Sourav Ganguly was best captain he had played under. However, according to Nehra, every player has ir own choice of a favourite captain when y play for 16 years and he reckons that star all-rounder played well under MS Dhoni.

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'I don’t see anyone coming close': Ashish Nehra

During a recent interview with a daily publication, Nehra said he does t see anyone coming close to impact that MS Dhoni has had as a wicket-keeper batsman except for Rishabh Pant. At same time, former medium pacer also mentioned that southpaw reminds him a lot of Dhoni even though he is still in early days of his cricketing journey.

2011 World Cup winner also added that Dinesh Karthik was an exceptional talent with sound technique. However,  former Indian skipper did what neir Dinesh Karthik or Parthiv Patel could do and that was making most of his opportunities. veteran left-arm medium-pacer furr added that even though World Cup-winning captain might t have been best-looking batsman or a sound wicket-keeper, he certainly was  best wicketkeeper-batsman. 

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