New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS): India's flamboyant left-handed batsman Yuvraj Singh Wednesday made himself available for selection for the triangular ODI series in Australia hoped the 'fab-four' would fire in the third Test in Perth starting Friday.
"If India has to do well guys like Viru (Virender Sehwag), Sachin (Tendulkar), Rahul (Dravid) and (VVS) Laxman all have to fire together, get good partnerships going and I am sure they will bounce back in the next Test match," Yuvraj said.
Yuvraj, who has been forced to sit out with a non-malignant tumour in his lungs, said the credit must go to Australia for their dominating performances in the first two Tests in Melbourne and Sydney.
"You need to give credit to the Australians, they have played very good cricket. Everybody was writing Hussey and Ponting off, those are the guys who came and scored and made the difference along with Michael Clarke," Yuvraj was quoted as saying by CNN-IBN.
Yuvraj rubbished reports of rift within the team as reported by the Australian media.
"When the team is loosing you are bound to draw criticism. I don't agree that there is any rift in the team, these are issues created by the media. I just hope they have a good Test match and everything dies down. I am sure altogether they will pull something special," he said.
Recalling the evenly fiercely fought series in 2007-08, Yuvraj said: "I think our bowlers distributed the wickets in between. We had very good partnerships between Sachin, Rahul and Laxman which helped us to get a good score and got them out early. It was a great comeback after what had happened in the Sydney Test last time. It was great character shown by Anil Kumble."
Yuvraj said he was fully fit and admitted that playing despite being diagnosed with the tumor early was a big mistake. Yuvraj played the first two Tests against the West Indies with the lung infection.
"I have always been desperate to play Test cricket but at that point of time my body was not 100 per cent fit. After I got the news that the tumour was non-malignant I thought lets get to 100 per cent fitness and then play cricket," said Yuvraj.
"I should have not played but I always put my country before myself, which was again right thing to do. Like I said I wanted to play Test cricket so I was compensating with my body which was not the right thing to do. But in the end I realised if you don't have a cent per cent fit body you cannot go and perform for your country," he said.
Yuvraj said he is now looking to comeback to international cricket in the upcoming tri-series in Australia.
"Looking forward to represent my country once again. Hopefully, I get a nod to play in Australia and I do really well for India," he said.