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batsmen, battling, bewildered, buckled under, tracked, undue.

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Beating an Australian team is never an easy job, least of all in a knockout match in a World Cup. In 2011, Yuvraj Singh was determined to do it "For the first time in my life there have been claps in a press conference," Yuvraj Singh said. He had just dealt the final blow that dumped Australia, the defending champions, out and fast-____________1_____ India's chances of World Cup glory. 

In the first innings, Yuvraj's left-arm sliders strangled the _________________ at one end, even as Ricky Ponting soldiered on at the other. St2ill, 261 in a knockout match was a handy target, as the Indian middle order found out. It had _________________ aggression from the Australian bowlers, leaving 74 to get3 in the last 12 overs. There was no _________4________ urgency from Yuvraj, but the intent was obvious throughout his unbeaten 65-ball 57. 

Singles began trickling, the pressure began to ease, and the dressing room began hoping again. As long as he was in, Australia looked beatable. Yuvraj transformed a Brett Lee yorker into a boundary ball, deposited a ________5_________ Shaun Tait on the midwicket boundary, and hit the winning runs, taking a fourth Man of the Match award in the tournament. He had come into the World Cup on the back of poor form, but against West Indies he broke a run of two years without a century before coming back to pick up a couple of wickets as well to help India into the quarter-final. Once there, he would not be denied.

 "This is the moment I have lived for as a cricketer," Yuvraj said. Later it would be revealed how much when doctors diagnosed he had played the tournament while _____6____________ cancer.