It's been five years since his retirement from international cricket but the habit remains.
India Champions faced Australia Champions in their last group-stage match of the World Championship of Legends on Friday in Northampton.
The India Champions needed to win and win big to stand a chance to qualify for the playoffs. And their captain led from the front.
Coming in to bat at No.4, Yuvraj blasted 59 off 28 balls with five sixes and four fours. He put every Australia Champions bowler to the cleaners but was particularly severe against Xavier Doherty. Yuvraj hit the left-arm spinner for two sixes and a boundary in the 13th over.
He used his trademark slog sweeps and booming lofted shots straight over the bowler's head against the spinners.
Against the seamers, it was the short-arm pulls and the extra cover drives that got him runs as the crowd got a glimpse of vintage Yuvraj. He got to his half-century with a six over fine-leg off Peter Siddle.
The two-time World Champion was not in the best of forms in this tournament. Before this match, he had registered scores of 2, 38*, 14, 19 and 5. But the flamboyant left-hander found his touch when it mattered the most.
Yuvraj Singh destroys Australia with brutal hitting